Re: Hardware Config

From: "Steve Wolfe" <steve(at)iboats(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hardware Config
Date: 2001-06-20 22:21:21
Message-ID: 001301c0f9d7$5897c480$50824e40@iboats.com
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> > 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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