Just to add a data point (and sorry, I can't find where someone was talking about numbers in the thread)...
For a while earlier this year we were running a 3.x kernel and saw a very modest (1-2%) improvement in overall performance. This would be on a server with 512G RAM running ext4. -- Jim C. Nasby, Data Architect j...@nasby.net 512.569.9461 (cell) http://jim.nasby.net -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers