Re: PostgreSQL 9.2 benchmarks

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:30:04 +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 07:21:36PM +1000, 
> [email protected] wrote:
>> >
>> > Some rapid conclusions:
>> > - Scientific Linux smokes all other operating systems
>>
>> Very interesting. I wonder what do Linux people do differently to 
>> get
>> their OS so much faster. I would have imagined maybe 20% faster than 
>> BSDs,
>> but a whopping 100%? That almost doesn't sound right.
>
> The tests were done with a connection to 127.0.0.1.
>
> The current theory is Linux has special localhost handling which
> effectively makes it bypass all regular networking paths.

Can you run the same tests with pgbench running on a second box?

Jan

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