On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:24:24PM -0500, Jeremy Haile wrote: > I am sure that this has been discussed before, but I can't seem to find > any recent posts. (I am running PostgreSQL 8.2) > > I have always ran PostgreSQL on Linux in the past, but the company I am > currently working for uses Windows on all of their servers. I don't > have the luxury right now of running my own benchmarks on the two OSes, > but wanted to know if anyone else has done a performance comparison. Is > there any significant differences? One thing to consider... I've seen a case or two where pgbench running on windows with HyperThreading enabled was actually faster than with it turned off. (General experience has been that HT hurts PostgreSQL). I suspect that the windows kernel may have features that allow it to better utilize HT than linux. Of course if you don't have HT... it doesn't matter. :) -- Jim Nasby jim@xxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
