Benjamin Arai wrote:
> I have been trying to find information on PostgreSQL for running it on
> greater then 4 processors. Are there any benchmarks out there and have
> there been any problems or does anybody forsee any issues running
> PostgreSQL with more then 4 processors?
There shouldn't be any issues with running on large SMP machines. There
has been some speculation that lock contention (specifically for the
BufMgrLock) might hurt performance somewhat on machines with > 4
processors, but I don't know to what degree. In any case, you should
certainly be able to *use* PG; how well it will perform on a many-way
SMP box relative to, say, Oracle, I'm not sure.
-Neil
