On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:35:13PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > > Hmmm. > > Raw performance seems to be increased as well, due to an improved kernel > (2.4.18 plus low-latency and preemptible patches, according to the kernel > source RPM). The low-latency and preemptible patches are not meant for performance gains, but for responsiveness, and are not designed to be used in servers, only in workstations/desktops.
> Although I am a little overwhelmed by the increased performance > of this new Athlon 1.2+512MB RAM versus my old Celeron 650+192MB RAM, 7.2.93 > seems to be faster on the same hardware. 2.4.18 does come with a improved VM, what could justify the performance increase. As could an update on the compiler (I've being using gcc 3.1 in my redhat 7.2). But I can't recomend the beta to anyone, we had problems with one dual pentium iii server, causing random corruption on /usr/include/*.h and a lock up. Regards, Luciano Rocha -- Luciano Rocha, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D. Cohen ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html