Re: Windows performance

On 02/12/2016 07:37 AM, Sterpu Victor wrote:
> Hello
> Why is Postgres so slow on Windows compared to linux?
> Can I do something to match the performance?
> I have 2 servers:
> - one is Windows 8, CPU XEON, 8 CORES,  32G of RAM - my test query runs
> in 17 seconds
> - the other is Linux CPU XEON, 4 cores, 4 Gh of RAM - my test query runs
> in 2 seconds

Assuming the version of Postgres is the same on both machine.
In any case what are the versions on the machines?

> I run the query on the same database.

What is the query and what is the output of EXPLAIN ANALYZE?

> CPU is not used at max on the servers, RAM is fine.
> Is there a problem with Windows?My gues is that Windows is not using

I will pass on this.

> the hardware resources as it should be.
> Can I do something to fix this?

Are the settings in the postgresql.conf files the same?




> Thank you.
>

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