Re: Wierd context-switching issue on Xeon

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, lutzeb(at)aeccom(dot)com, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Wierd context-switching issue on Xeon
Date: 2004-04-19 21:02:27
Message-ID: 40843E63.7050101@joeconway.com
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scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>I have BSD on a SuperMicro dual Xeon, so if folks want another
>>hardware/OS combination to test, I can give out logins to my machine.
>
> I can probably do some nighttime testing on a dual 2800MHz non-MP Xeon
> machine as well. It's a Dell 2600 series machine and very fast. It has
> the moderately fast 533MHz FSB so may not have as many problems as the MP
> type CPUs seem to be having.

I've got a quad 2.8Ghz MP Xeon (IBM x445) that I could test on. Does
anyone have a test set that can reliably reproduce the problem?

Joe

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