Re: Performance Issues on Opteron Dual Core

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, "Jan de Visser" <jdevisser(at)digitalfairway(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Performance Issues on Opteron Dual Core
Date: 2006-05-03 07:29:15
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA0F957@algol.sollentuna.se
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> > > 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?

There is no SP2 for Windows 2003.

Have you tried this with latest-and-greatest CVS HEAD? Meaning with the
new semaphore code that was committed a couple of days ago?

//Magnus

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