Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 02:05:57PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote: >>> In searching the archives, I can't find any specific info indentifying >>> which Xeon processors don't have this problem. >> AFAIK the cut-off point is at the Woodcrests. They are overall much better >> suited to PostgreSQL than the older Xeons were. >> >> It's slightly unfortunate that AMD and Intel cling to the Opteron and Xeon >> names even though they're making significant architecture changes, but that's >> life, I guess. > > AFAIR Intel has been calling their server processors Xeon since Pentium > Pro's, at least. > Almost. Xeon was the new name for the "Pro" series. Instead of Pentium II Pro, we got Pentium II Xeon. The whole Pentium Pro line was a server line, which is why initial Pentium-II CPUs were significantly slower for server apps than the much older ppro (which still runs pg at a reasonable speed if you have enough of them and a low budget, btw) //Magnus
