[PERFORM] Hyperthreading slows processes?

2005-11-20 Thread Craig A. James
This article on ZDNet claims that hyperthreading can *hurt* performance, due to contention in the L1/L2 cache by a second process: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39237341,00.htm Has anyone tested this on Postgres yet? (And based on a recent somewhat caustic thread about performance on

Re: [PERFORM] Hyperthreading slows processes?

2005-11-20 Thread Dave Cramer
Yeah, it's pretty much a known issue for postgres Dave On 20-Nov-05, at 4:46 PM, Craig A. James wrote: This article on ZDNet claims that hyperthreading can *hurt* performance, due to contention in the L1/L2 cache by a second process: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39237341,00.htm Has