Re: Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance

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On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:55:59 -0500
Mark Niedzielski <min(at)epictechnologies(dot)com> wrote:

>
> Our developers run on MacBook Pros w/ 2G memory and our production
> hardware is dual dual-Core Opterons w/ 8G memory running CentOS 5.
> The Macs perform common and complex Postgres operations in about half
> the time of our unloaded production hardware. We've compared
> configurations and the production hardware is running a much bigger
> configuration and faster disk.
>
> What are we missing?

Likely alot. Are you performing any maintenance? What are your
postgresql.conf settings? Are you running 64bit on the Linux machine?

> Is there a trick to making AMDs perform? Does
> Linux suck compared to BSD?

No.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
>
> Thanks.
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