Re: Strange behaviour of Postgresql (Postgresql 7.3.3

Sorry.. I just couldn't resist.
So, what's a TLA'?
:)

scott.marlowe wrote:

>hehe. Might as well be, huh? IPC = Interprocess Communication for all
>those who don't know. Sorry for using a TLA without defining it.
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>On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Dennis Gearon wrote:
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>>IPC, 'interrupt procedure call'?
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>>scott.marlowe wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Markus Heinz wrote:
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>>>>Hello,
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>>>>i'm evaluating Postgresql on win32 (winnt, win2k). I'm using a small java benchmark from FirstSQL (see attachments).
>>>>I've ran the benchmark on three pc's
>>>> 1) Pentium III 750 MHz Winnt Sp6a, 372 MB PC100 RAM, IBM 26GB HD 7200RPM
>>>> 2) Pentium 4 1.4GHz Win2k SP4, 256MB RRAM, WD 20GB HD 7200RPM
>>>> 3) Athlon XP 2400+ Win2k SP4, 512 DDR 266, Seagate 120GB HD 7200RPM
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>>>>using identical cygwin and PeerDirect configs on all PCs.
>>>>To my surprise the Pentium III on Winnt was three times faster than the Pentium IV 1.4 GHz
>>>>and two times faster than the Athlon XP 2400+.
>>>>Are there known problems with postgressql and Win2k SP4 ?
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>>>No, Microsoft decided to basically change the preferred method for
>>>applications to talk to each other with the release of win2k. while Winnt
>>>had fast IPC, (the IPC that cygwin uses relies on it) 2k had much slower
>>>stock IPC. There are a few articles floating around the net about it.
>>>It's one of the reasons many older NT servers are still running, because
>>>the software running on them will be slower on machines running 2k and
>>>above.
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