Re: Hardware Config - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Steve Wolfe
Subject Re: Hardware Config
Date
Msg-id 001301c0f9d7$5897c480$50824e40@iboats.com
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In response to Re: Hardware Config  ("Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos" <thalis@cs.pitt.edu>)
List pgsql-general
> > Will PostgreSQL take advantage of more than 1 CPU? If so, are there
any
> > benchmarks showing how it scales with multiple CPUs?

   We run PG on a quad xeon, and it works wonderfully.  From PG's design
of forking off a new backend for each connection, it is inherantly
scalable, as each backend can run on another CPU.  And, of course, having
extra CPU's to handle kernel code, I/O, interrupts, and other things is
always good.

steve



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