Re: High CPU Load

From: "Guillaume Smet" <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Markus Schaber" <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: High CPU Load
Date: 2006-09-15 10:10:06
Message-ID: 1d4e0c10609150310i740c20acv3407485dc362dbed@mail.gmail.com
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On 9/15/06, Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com> wrote:
> For xeons, there were rumours about "context switch storms" which kill
> performance.

It's not that much a problem in 8.1. There are a few corner cases when
you still have the problem but on a regular load you don't have it
anymore (validated here with a quad Xeon MP and a dual Xeon).

--
Guillaume

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