Re: Sun vs. Mac

All,

> Let me get this straight: the Sun is slower even with fsync
> off? That

Correct. This really helped a lot, especially with the dump
load, but I've clearly got some more work ahead of me.

> Andrew Sullivan's nearby recommendation to replace qsort() is
> a good
> one, but PG 7.3 is already configured to do that by default.
> (Look in
> src/Makefile.global to confirm that qsort.o is mentioned in
> LIBOBJS.)

Thanks for confirming. I've got LIBOBJS = isinf.o qsort.o

> I'd suggest starting with some elementary measurements, for
> example looking at I/O rates and CPU idle percentage while
> running the same task on both Solaris and G3. That would at
> least give us a clue whether I/O or CPU is the bottleneck.

Good thoughts - I'm working on it right now, though I'm not
really sure how to check I/O rates....

Thanks much for the input,

-X

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