From: | William Yu <wyu(at)talisys(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Performance problems on 4/8way Opteron (dualcore) |
Date: | 2005-07-31 21:11:58 |
Message-ID: | dcjer1$16ov$1@news.hub.org |
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A 4xDC would be far more sensitive to poor NUMA code than 2xDC so I'm
not surprised I don't see performance issues on our 2xDC w/ < 2.6.12.
J. Andrew Rogers wrote:
> On 7/30/05 12:57 AM, "William Yu" <wyu(at)talisys(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>I haven't investigated the 2.6.12+ kernel updates yet -- I probably will
>>do our development servers first to give it a test.
>
>
>
> The kernel updates make the NUMA code dual-core aware, which apparently
> makes a big difference in some cases but not in others. It makes some
> sense, since multi-processor multi-core machines will have two different
> types of non-locality instead of just one that need to be managed. Prior to
> the v2.6.12 patches, a dual-core dual-proc machine was viewed as a quad-proc
> machine.
>
> The closest thing to a supported v2.6.12 kernel that I know of is FC4, which
> is not really supported in the enterprise sense of course.
>
>
> J. Andrew Rogers
>
>
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