On 04/05/2011 02:21 PM, Mischa Sandberg wrote: <blockquote
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--> </style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Came across the following in a paper from Oct 2010. Was
wonderingis this is old news I missed in this group.<p class="MsoNormal"><a
href="http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/linux:osdi10.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/linux:osdi10.pdf</a><pclass="MsoNormal">about Linux
optimizationon multi-core CPU’s.</div></blockquote><br /> Only a little old; <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/MIT-benchmarks-pgsql-multicore-up-to-48-performance-td3173545.html">http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/MIT-benchmarks-pgsql-multicore-up-to-48-performance-td3173545.html</a>
showsmost of the obvious comments to be made about it. There is more detail explaining why the hand-waving done in the
paperabout increasing NUM_LOCK_PARTITIONS is not a simple improvement at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Lock-partitions-td1952557.html">http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Lock-partitions-td1952557.html</a><br
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