Re: [GENERAL] oracle linux

2012-04-03 Thread Greg Smith
On 03/28/2012 10:38 AM, Gregg Jaskiewicz wrote: They seem to claim up to 70% speed gain. Did anyone proved it, tested it - with PostgreSQL in particular ? RedHat's RHEL5 kernel is 2.6.18 with a bunch of backported features. Oracle just yanks that out and puts a closer to stock 2.6.32 based k

Re: [GENERAL] oracle linux

2012-03-28 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 28 Březen 2012, 17:44, Thom Brown wrote: > On 28 March 2012 16:30, Tom Lane wrote: >> "Tomas Vondra" writes: >>> On 28 Březen 2012, 16:38, Gregg Jaskiewicz wrote: They seem to claim up to 70% speed gain. Did anyone proved it, tested it - with PostgreSQL in particular ? >> >>> I reall

Re: [GENERAL] oracle linux

2012-03-28 Thread Thom Brown
On 28 March 2012 16:30, Tom Lane wrote: > "Tomas Vondra" writes: >> On 28 Březen 2012, 16:38, Gregg Jaskiewicz wrote: >>> They seem to claim up to 70% speed gain. >>> Did anyone proved it, tested it - with PostgreSQL in particular ? > >> I really don't expect such difference just due to switching

Re: [GENERAL] oracle linux

2012-03-28 Thread Tom Lane
"Tomas Vondra" writes: > On 28 Březen 2012, 16:38, Gregg Jaskiewicz wrote: >> They seem to claim up to 70% speed gain. >> Did anyone proved it, tested it - with PostgreSQL in particular ? > I really don't expect such difference just due to switching to a different > kernel. There's a space for i

Re: [GENERAL] oracle linux

2012-03-28 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 28 Březen 2012, 16:38, Gregg Jaskiewicz wrote: > They seem to claim up to 70% speed gain. > Did anyone proved it, tested it - with PostgreSQL in particular ? They do claim a lot of things, and most of the time it's along the lines "Let's take this very specific case, let's assume these rather u

[GENERAL] oracle linux

2012-03-28 Thread Gregg Jaskiewicz
They seem to claim up to 70% speed gain. Did anyone proved it, tested it - with PostgreSQL in particular ? They seem to run the same way as RHEL do, ie - you can download it for free, but pay for repo access. (thus updates). -- GJ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgres