Re: continuing daily testing of dbt2 against postgresql

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:37:32AM -0700, Mark Wong wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 05:26:11PM -0700, Mark Wong wrote:
> >>I made another couple of gross mistakes of forgetting to compile
> >>PostgreSQL with --enable-thread-safe and enabling the user space irq
> >>balancing program in Linux.  I've restarted the histories with 600 and
> >
> >What's the advantage of irq balancing in user space as opposed to the
> >kernel (which is the default, right?)
> 
> Linux doesn't have irq balancing in the kernel.  They've made the 
> decision to leave that to a user space process.  The irq balancing flag 
> in the kernel is just to enable the hooks for a user space program.

Oooh, interesting... I wonder how many installs out there are running
without IRQ balancing enabled.
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