On Apr 20, 2005, at 12:40 AM, Jeff Frost wrote:
> I've seen quite a few folks touting the Opteron as 2.5x faster with
> postgres than a Xeon box. What makes the Opteron so quick? Is it
> that Postgres really prefers to run in 64-bit mode?
>
The I/O path on the opterons seems to be much faster, and having 64-bit
all the way to the disk controller helps... just be sure to run a
64-bit version of your OS.
Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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