Thomas Graichen <news-list(dot)pgsql(dot)admin(at)innominate(dot)de> writes:
> i hope this list is somewhat the right one for this ...
> i did some small tests with postgresql-71.beta4 on various
> filesystems (ext2, reiserfs, xfs) on two machines: 1 single
> cpu and one 2 cpu smp and was a bit surprised to see the tps
> results of the smp case to be lower than the one of the up case
Hm, did you set commit_delay to zero? What are the other postmaster
parameters (especially -B) ?
regards, tom lane