Re: [HACKERS] xeon processors

2004-07-01 Thread Doug McNaught
Christopher Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaime Casanova) would write: Can anyone tell me if postgresql has problems with xeon processors? If so, there is any fix or project of fix it? Well, there's a known issue that IA-32

Re: [HACKERS] xeon processors

2004-07-01 Thread Manfred Spraul
Christopher Browne wrote: The fix for this problem is to rewrite all of your applications so that they become conscious of which bits of memory they're using so they can tune their own behaviour. This, of course, requires discarding useful notions such as virtual memory that are _assumed_ by most

Re: [HACKERS] xeon processors

2004-06-30 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaime Casanova) would write: Can anyone tell me if postgresql has problems with xeon processors? If so, there is any fix or project of fix it? Well, there's a known issue that IA-32 systems with more than 4GB of memory use an extension

Re: [HACKERS] xeon processors

2004-06-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 07:31:59PM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 14:13, Jaime Casanova wrote: Hi all, Can anyone tell me if postgresql has problems with xeon processors? If so, there is any fix or project of fix it? To PostgreSQL, there's no difference between a

Re: [HACKERS] xeon processors

2004-06-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 14:13, Jaime Casanova wrote: Hi all, Can anyone tell me if postgresql has problems with xeon processors? If so, there is any fix or project of fix it? To PostgreSQL, there's no difference between a dual CPU machine with no hyperthreading, and a single CPU machine

[HACKERS] xeon processors

2004-06-25 Thread Jaime Casanova
Hi all, Can anyone tell me if postgresql has problems with xeon processors? If so, there is any fix or project of fix it? Thanx in advance, Jaime Casanova Do You Yahoo!? Todo lo que quieres saber de Estados Unidos, América Latina y el resto del Mundo. Visíta Yahoo! Noticias.

Re: [HACKERS] xeon processors

2004-06-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, I seem to recall that HyperThreading and PostgreSQL != good stuff... There was a whole bunch of stuff recently on this... google the archives. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Jaime Casanova wrote: Hi all, Can anyone tell me if postgresql has problems with xeon processors? If so, there is any

Re: [HACKERS] xeon processors

2004-06-25 Thread Jaime Casanova
thanx"Joshua D. Drake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,I seem to recall that HyperThreading and PostgreSQL != good stuff...There was a whole bunch of stuff recently on this... google the archives.Sincerely,Joshua D. DrakeJaime Casanova wrote: Hi all, Can anyone tell me if postgresql has problems