> > Going back to the OP, you think the CPU load is so high when using SCSI
> > because of underperforming APPLE drivers?
>
> Hmmm..... Eric, have you tuned PostgreSQL's memory buffers at all?
>
Shared memory, buffers, and sort memory have been boosted as well as the number of clients.
The tuning that I've done is for my app, not for pgbench.
eric