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Re: Performance problems on 4-way AMD Opteron 875 (dual core)

Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@mathom.us>

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From: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@mathom.us>
To: Dirk Lutzebäck <lutzeb@aeccom.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, Sven Geisler <sgeisler@aeccom.com>
Date: 2005-08-05T12:27:19Z
Lists: pgsql-performance 
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 01:11:31PM +0200, Dirk Lutzebäck wrote:
>I will compile the latest PostgreSQL 8.1 snapshot for 32bit to evaluate 
>the new shared buffer code from Tom.
>I think, the 64bit is slow because my queries are CPU intensive.

Have you actually tried it or are you guessing? If you're guessing, then
compile it as a 64 bit binary and benchmark that.

Mike Stone