<story><title> Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To PostgreSQL </title><url>http://rhaas.blogspot.in/2014/04/subtly-bad-things-linux-may-be-doing-to.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davidpardo</author><text>Being a user of both Linux and PostrgreSQL, I&amp;#x27;m very interested in this issue, but I only understand some of the words...&lt;p&gt;Could everybody wiser than me tell me if I should be concerned and the possible implications of these decisions? Should I invest in alternative platforms?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Orva</author><text>In NUMA front Linux is, as far as I know, leaps and bounds ahead of FreeBSD, Solaris and Windows. All four platforms offer ways to tune process and memory allocations by hand, but Linux is only platform that puts lot of work to make automatic NUMA scheduling actually work. It is actually pretty difficult problem. Something to read if you are interested:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2513149&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;queue.acm.org&amp;#x2F;detail.cfm?id=2513149&lt;/a&gt;
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<story><title> Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To PostgreSQL </title><url>http://rhaas.blogspot.in/2014/04/subtly-bad-things-linux-may-be-doing-to.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davidpardo</author><text>Being a user of both Linux and PostrgreSQL, I&amp;#x27;m very interested in this issue, but I only understand some of the words...&lt;p&gt;Could everybody wiser than me tell me if I should be concerned and the possible implications of these decisions? Should I invest in alternative platforms?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ars</author><text>These are very minor issues and will be noticed by very few.&lt;p&gt;If you are running a huge database and need every possible bit of performance this will matter, otherwise it&amp;#x27;s not something to worry about.</text></comment>