Re: scalablility problem

[Michael Stone <mstone+postgres(at)mathom(dot)us>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:00:30PM -0600, Guido Neitzer wrote:
> On 30.03.2007, at 19:18, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > 2.  There are known issues with the combination of Xeon processors and
> > PAE memory addressing; that sort of hardware tends to be *way* less
> > speedy than the specs would suggest.
>
> That is not true as the current series of processors (Woodcrest and  
> the like) are also called Xeon. You probably mean the Pentium IV era  
> Xeons.

Well, the newer ones can address large amounts of memory directly, 
without using PAE, but the original comment was correct--PAE is slow 
regardless of what processor implements it.

Mike Stone