Re: Performance Issues on Opteron Dual Core

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 06:49:48PM -0400, Jan de Visser wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 May 2006 16:28, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:59:56PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> > > Pgadmin can give misleading times for queries that return large result
> > > sets over a network, due to:
> > >
> > > 1/ It takes time to format the (large) result set for display.
> > > 2/ It has to count the time spent waiting for the (large) result set to
> > > travel across the network.
> > >
> > > You aren't running Pgadmin off the dev server are you? If not check your
> > > network link to dev and prod - is one faster than the other? (etc).
> > >
> > > To eliminate Pgadmin and the network as factors try wrapping your query
> > > in a 'SELECT count(*) FROM (your query here) AS a', and see if it
> > > changes anything!
> >
> > FWIW, I've found problems running PostgreSQL on Windows in a multi-CPU
> > environment on w2k3. It runs fine for some period, and then CPU and
> > throughput drop to zero. So far I've been unable to track down any more
> > information than that, other than the fact that I haven't been able to
> > reproduce this on any single-CPU machines.
>
> I have had previous correspondence about this with Magnus (search -general
> and -hackers). If you uninstall SP1 the problem goes away. We played a bit
> with potential fixes but didn't find any.

Interesting; does SP2 fix the problem? Anything we can do over here to
help?
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