> WRT 64-bit and Postgres, it depends on the CPU as to whether you see a
> simple performance benefit. On the Opteron you will see a benefit when
> doing CPU bound work. When doing the CPU portion, the additional registers
> of the Opteron running in 64-bit mode are used by the compiler to produce a
> 20-30% boost in performance. On the Xeon in 64-bit mode, the same regions
> of execution will slow down by about 5%.
Is that true of even Woodcrest?
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Postgres benefits automatically from the larger memory addressing of the
> 64-bit kernel by using the larger I/O cache of Linux.
>
> - Luke
>
>
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