Re: Hyper-Trading

From: "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Hyper-Trading
Date: 2007-07-11 00:34:13
Message-ID: b35603930707101734g1f6e9bf8y893a6c67b957b2bc@mail.gmail.com
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On 7/11/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Conventional wisdom around here has been that HT doesn't help database
> performance, and that IBM link might provide a hint as to why: the
> only item for which they show a large loss in performance is disk I/O.
> Ooops.
Thanks Tom, great summary. How does this compare with
SMP vs HT?

> Personally I keep HT turned on on my devel machine, because I do find
> that recompiling Postgres is noticeably faster ("make -j4" rocks on a
> dual Xeon w/HT). I doubt that's the benchmark of greatest interest
> to the average *user* of Postgres, though.
Understood :)

> regards, tom lane
Cheers,
Andrej

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