Re: Postgres CPU usage - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos
Subject Re: Postgres CPU usage
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0105241330570.317-100000@aluminum.cs.pitt.edu
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In response to Postgres CPU usage  (Linh Luong <linh.luong@computalog.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Linh Luong wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am running postgres7.1 and php4.0.  When I do top while running my
> query via browser I notice that the postmaster process takes  up almost
> 100% of the CPU and this is just for one user.  What would happen if
> multiple users does the same search at the same time would the
> postmaster die?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> Linh Luong
> Computalog Ltd.
> Software Developer
> Phone: (780) 464-6686 (ext 325)
> Email: linh.luong@computalog.com

Well if your CPU is idle, shouldn't someone do smthing usefull with it :-)
If N users do the sam search postmaster wouldn't die.
Go through http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?arch.html wrt the Postgres architecture.

cheers,
thalis


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