Re: [GENERAL] Performance

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> The third is the SPARC chip's cache versus the Intel chip's cache.  I know
> SUN and Ross were making chips with as little as 128 cache, and the SPEC
> marks for the 128 v. 256 v 512 v 1024 cache are phenomenal.  So just out
> of curiousity, what's the cache size on the SPARC and Intel chips
> respectively?

1) All Celerons ship with a 128K on chip cache. Which means the cache runs
at the same clock rate as the chip.
2) The PIIs ship with 512K cache, however it's level 2 so it only runs at bus
speed.
3) The Xeon has different sizes of on chip cache that runs at the clock speed.
The Xeon is _the_ processor to be used in a highly loaded server based on the
Intel architecture.

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> > On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jason wrote:
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> > > Looking for a little reasoning behind our performance difference on 2
> > > different platforms.  We have been running postgres on our sparcs, and
> > > have come to rely on the dB quite heavily.  We have dedicated a box to
> > > doing nothing but our postgres work.  Here is what we have:
> > >
> > > Dual Sparc 167
> > > 512 MB RAM
> > > Solaris 2.5.1
> > >
> > > Performance seemed reasonable to us, until we ran the same database
> > > and queries on the following machine:
> > >
> > > Intel Celeron 333
> > > 128 MB RAM
> > > Red Hat Linux 5.2
> > >
> > > We have a passwd style database with 65,000 rows.  We updated 20,000
> > > of them with a SQL update command, setting a single integer field to a
> > > value.  Both boxes where indexed the same, and had identical data.
> > > The Sparc took near 10 minutes to complete, while the Intel took ~30
> > > seconds.  This is just one case, but many very similar tests had the
> > > same results.
> > >
> > > Now I love Linux, and the price compared to a Sparc makes it much
> > > simpler to get one on line.  However, I can't understand why the Sparc
> > > would lag so far behind.  We are starting Postgres the same on both
> > > machines:
> > >
> > > su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -B 256 -o -F -i -S"
> > >
> > > We are looking at getting a dual 400 Intel Pentium II box with Red Hat
> > > to migrate all of the Postgres work to.  But in the meantime, is there
> > > a way to optimize the performance on the Sparc?  Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > -Jason Neumeier.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick:
> > Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org
> >   secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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