Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A9E89FB456 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 03:52:38 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13411-05 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 03:52:32 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from svr2.hagander.net (svr2.hagander.net [88.198.128.226]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC3289FA642 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 03:52:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: from dynamic.hagander.net ([127.0.0.1]) (encrypted and authenticated) by svr2.hagander.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477ADDCC972; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 07:52:33 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <472977B9.1070900@hagander.net> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:52:41 +0100 From: Magnus Hagander User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tomas Vondra CC: Ketema , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Hardware for PostgreSQL References: <1193849108.591961.103570@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <4728FAA1.7060905@fuzzy.cz> In-Reply-To: <4728FAA1.7060905@fuzzy.cz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200711/3 X-Sequence-Number: 27418 Tomas Vondra wrote: >> How does pg utilize multiple processors? The more the better? > > Linux version uses processes, so it's able to use multiple processors. > (Not sure about Windows version, but I guess it uses threads.) No, the Windows version also uses processes. //Magnus