On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Matthew wrote:
> You may also be seeing processes forced to switch between CPUs, which
> breaks the caches even more. So what happens if you run pgbench on a
> separate machine to the server? Does the problem still exist in that
> case?
I haven't run that test yet but will before I submit a report. I did
however try running things with the pgbench executable itself bound to a
single CPU with no improvement.
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