Josh Berkus wrote:
> Geoffrey,
>
>> I recall a reference on the list indicating that newer Xeon processors
>> don't suffer from the context switching problem reported last year.
>
> Just to be clear, it's a software problem which affects all architectures,
> including AMD and Sparc. It's just *worse* on the PIII and P4 generation
> Xeons.
>
Also isn't it pretty much *not* a problem with current versions of
PostgreSQL?
Joshua D. Drake
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