On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 02:43, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Orion Henry kirjutas N, 05.02.2004 kell 07:16:
> > I've done some testing of 7.3.4 vs 7.4.1 and found 7.4.1 to be 20%-30%
> > slower than 7.3.4.  Is this common knowledge or am I just unlucky with
> > my query/data selection?
> > 
> > Things of note that might matter: the machine is a dual Opteron 1.4GHz
> > running Fedora Core 1 Test 1 for X86_64.  The 7.3.4 was from the Fedora
> > distro and the 7.4.1 was the PGDG package.
> 
> Are you sure that it is not the case that it is not tha case that 7.3.4
> is 64 bit and the PGDG package is 32 ?

Yes sure... I don't know if they were compiled with differing
optimizations or compilers though...

> > The database is 3.5 Gigs with 10 millions rows and the machine had 1 Gig or ram.
> > 
> > Oh... as a side note I'm happy to announce that the 2.6 Linux kernel has
> > more than DOUBLED the speed of all my Postgres queries over the 2.4. =)
> 
> Is this on this same hardware ?

No.  I havent gotten the 2.6 kernel working on the Opteron yet.  The 2x speedup 
was on a dual Athlon 2GHz.

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