Sven,
On 6/13/06 5:03 AM, "Sven Geisler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, I know. We had a problem last year with the performance of the
> Opteron. We have started the futex patch to resolve the issue. The futex
> patch itself did have no effect, but there was a side effect because the
> futex patch did use also another assembler sequence. This make a hole
> difference on a Opteron. It turned out that removing the lines
>
> cmpb
> jne
> lock
>
> was the reason why the Opteron runs faster.
> I have created a sequence of larger query with following result on
> Opteron 875 and PostgreSQL 8.0.3
> orignal 8.0.3 => 289 query/time and 10% cpu usage
> patched 8.0.3 => 1022 query/time and 45% cpu usage
This was in 64-bit mode on the Opteron?
- Luke
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