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Postgres is half as fast in Linux 7.0
An aws engineer discovered a 50% regression in postgres throughput while testing the new Linux 7.0 kernel. The cause turns out to be massive TLB and page faults exacerbated by Postgres process-based design. In this backe...
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Postgres is half as fast in Linux 7.0 is an episode from The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser by Hussein Nasser. An aws engineer discovered a 50% regression in postgres throughput while testing the new Linux 7.0 kernel. The caus...
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Published Jun 17, 2026, 00:34:08 long, audio available.
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