Re: Solaris Performance

Tom Lane wrote:
> "P.J. \"Josh\" Rovero" <rovero@sonalysts.com> writes:
> > We've been running equivalent configurations and schema on
> > HP-UX, Solaris, and x86 Linux, and benchmarking with
> > pgbench and some application-specific data.  All testing
> > was with 7.2rc2, and all were built natively on each platform.
>
> > Performance on Solaris (2.6 and 2.7) seems lackluster,
>
> Seeing as how those are three different hardware platforms, one must
> wonder how sure you are that you are comparing apples to apples.
> A difference in CPU speed or disk speed could explain everything.

Agreed, but if I had to take a guess, my bet is he is going to say the
Solaris box is faster in all ways.  We have heard such reports before.

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