Re: Upgrade to dual processor machine?

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: "Henrik Steffen" <steffen(at)city-map(dot)de>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Upgrade to dual processor machine?
Date: 2002-11-09 18:56:33
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"Henrik Steffen" <steffen(at)city-map(dot)de> writes:
> will an upgrade to a dual processor machine
> noticeably increase performance of a postgresql server?

Assuming you have more than 1 concurrent client, it likely
will. Whether it will be a huge performance improvement depends on the
other characteristics of the workload (e.g. is it I/O bound or CPU
bound?).

Cheers,

Neil

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