From: | david(at)lang(dot)hm |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: Feature Request --- was: PostgreSQL Performance Tuning |
Date: | 2007-05-03 20:16:14 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.64.0705031314310.26172@asgard.lang.hm |
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On Thu, 3 May 2007, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Greg,
>
>> I'm not fooled--secretly you and your co-workers laugh at how easy this
>> is on Solaris and are perfectly happy with how difficult it is on Linux,
>> right?
>
> Don't I wish. There's issues with getting CPU info on Solaris, too, if you
> get off of Sun Hardware to generic white boxes. The base issue is that
> there's no standardization on how manufacturers report the names of their
> CPUs, 32/64bit, or clock speeds. So any attempt to determine "how fast"
> a CPU is, even on a 1-5 scale, requires matching against a database of
> regexes which would have to be kept updated.
>
> And let's not even get started on Windows.
I think the only sane way to try and find the cpu speed is to just do a
busy loop of some sort (ideally something that somewhat resembles the main
code) and see how long it takes. you may have to do this a few times until
you get a loop that takes long enough (a few seconds) on a fast processor
David Lang
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