>>>>> "GA" == Glyn Astill <glynastill@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: GA> I was hoping someone had seen this sort of behaviour before, GA> and could offer some sort of explanation or advice. Jesper's reply is probably most on point as to the reason. I know that recent Opterons use some of their cache to better manage cache-coherency. I presum recent Xeons do so, too, but perhaps yours are not recent enough for that? -JimC -- James Cloos <cloos@xxxxxxxxxxx> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance