Dan,
On 2/13/07, Dan Harris <fbsd(at)drivefaster(dot)net> wrote:
> Having upgraded to 2.6.18 fairly recently, I am *very* interested in
> what caused the throughput to drop in 2.6.18? I haven't done any
> benchmarking on my system to know if it affected my usage pattern
> negatively, but I am curious if anyone knows why this happened?
I think you misread the graph. PostgreSQL 8.2 seems to be
approximately 20% faster with kernel 2.6.18 on the platforms tested
(and using tweakers.net benchmark).
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Guillaume