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Re: Wierd context-switching issue on Xeon

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: lutzeb@aeccom.com, pgsql-performance@postgreSQL.org, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Date: 2004-04-19T18:00:01Z
Lists: pgsql-performance 
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> The other thing I'd like your comment on, Tom, is that Dirk appears to have 
> reported that when he installed a non-bigmem kernel, the issue went away.   
> Dirk, is this correct?

I'd be really surprised if that had anything to do with it.  AFAIR
Dirk's test changed more than one variable and so didn't prove a
connection.

			regards, tom lane