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. -- --Josh Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
