Re: Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 05:01:06PM -0700, Scott Ribe wrote:
> > In general, you can expect any Unix based OS, which includes MacOS X, to
> > perform noticeably better than Windows for PostgreSQL.
> 
> Is that really true of BSD UNIXen??? I've certainly heard it's true of
> Linux. But with BSD you have the "kernel funnel" which can severely limit
> multitasking, regardless of whether threads or processes were used.

Yes, very much so. Windows lacks the fork() concept, which is what makes
PostgreSQL much slower there.

//Magnus