On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > One interesting thing I've discovered recently is that there is a HUGE > difference in performance between CentOS 6.0 and Ubuntu Server 10.04 > (LTS) in at least the memory allocator and possibly also multithreading > libraries (in favour of CentOS). PostgreSQL shouldn't be particularly > sensitive to either of these, but it makes me wonder what else is > suboptimal in Ubuntu. To be fair, RHEL6 was released 7 months after Ubuntu 10.04. But Redhat is pretty good at kernel patching for optimizations ertc. I'd be more interested in comparisons with ubuntu 12.04, due out next month. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general