On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 05:01:06PM -0700, Scott Ribe wrote: > > In general, you can expect any Unix based OS, which includes MacOS X, to > > perform noticeably better than Windows for PostgreSQL. > > Is that really true of BSD UNIXen??? I've certainly heard it's true of > Linux. But with BSD you have the "kernel funnel" which can severely limit > multitasking, regardless of whether threads or processes were used. Yes, very much so. Windows lacks the fork() concept, which is what makes PostgreSQL much slower there. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/