Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB5A39FB2B4 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 07:55:20 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 86022-06 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 07:55:13 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from mail.metronet.co.uk (mail.metronet.co.uk [213.162.97.75]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E6319FB65D for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 07:55:17 -0400 (AST) Received: from server3.office.archonet.com (84-51-143-99.archon037.adsl.metronet.co.uk [84.51.143.99]) by smtp.metronet.co.uk (MetroNet Mail) with ESMTP id 6181D76FA8; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:49:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.1.36] (dell36.office.archonet.com [192.168.1.36]) by server3.office.archonet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 451382740CA; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:49:13 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <45EC03B9.6080903@archonet.com> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:49:13 +0000 From: Richard Huxton User-Agent: IceDove 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjen van der Meijden Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [kris@obsecurity.org: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems] References: <20070227182621.GE29041@decibel.org> <20070302150129.GF4885@alvh.no-ip.org> <45E84790.6050609@tweakers.net> <45EBF658.30907@tweakers.net> In-Reply-To: <45EBF658.30907@tweakers.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.208 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL, BAYES_50, FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200703/83 X-Sequence-Number: 23488 Arjen van der Meijden wrote: > And here is that latest benchmark we did, using a 8 dual core opteron > Sun Fire x4600. Unfortunately PostgreSQL seems to have some difficulties > scaling over 8 cores, but not as bad as MySQL. > > http://tweakers.net/reviews/674 Hmm - interesting reading as always Arjen. Thanks for the notice on this. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd