> Emil Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I was testing the spinlock patches that Tom Lane posted last month > > on a quad opteron system running Suse 9.2 for x86_64. > > Exactly which patch is this, and against what base version of Postgres? > Also, what's the hardware (no, "x86_64" isn't specific enough)? >
It's the patch referenced here http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-09/msg00566.php from the thread titled "Spinlocks, yet again: analysis and proposed patches" I applied all the pieces of the patch against v8.0.4. The hardware is a Celestica A8440 with 4 2Ghz Opterons and 16Gbytes of RAM. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend