Re: PostgreSQL on Linux and Solaris comparison

"scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> writes:
> Agreed, but the performance issue on Solaris versus Linux for postgresql
> seems to be more than just process startup time.  It's like almost
> everything is about 50% to 100% faster in Linux than on sparc than in
> Solaris on Sparc as regards postgresql (I tested 7.2.x last time, haven't
> played with 7.3 on linux / sparc).
>
> Note that this same performance issue seems to rear its head with things
> like apache 1.3.x, and samba.

Perhaps someone that is using Solaris w/ PostgreSQL and is actually
experiencing this degraded performance can provide some empirical
data? For instance, profile an operation on Solaris, compare it with a
similar profile on Linux/BSD/etc., and try to figure out where the
performance hit is coming from. It may or may not be something that we
can improve on...

> It might be something to do with better shared memory performance or disk
> access is faster, or a conglomeration of things.

Well, we use Intimate Shared Memory (ISM) on Solaris in 7.3 -- that
should at least be a slight performance improvement over shm on other
platforms, as ISM uses huge TLB pages.

Cheers,

Neil

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