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From: Jignesh K. Shah <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM>
To: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: decibel <decibel@decibel.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal of tunable fix for scalability of 8.4
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:39:20 -0400
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On 03/16/09 11:08, Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Jignesh K. Shah" <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM> writes:
>
>   
>> Generally when there is dead constant.. signs of classic bottleneck ;-)  We
>> will be fixing one to get to another.. but knocking bottlenecks is the name of
>> the game I think
>>     
>
> Indeed. I think the bottleneck we're interested in addressing here is why you
> say you weren't able to saturate the 64 threads with 64 processes when they're
> all RAM-resident.
>
> From what I see you still have 400+ processes? Is that right?
>
>   

Any one claiming they run CPU intensive are not always telling the 
truth.. They *Think* they are running CPU intensive for the right part 
but there could be memory misses, they could be doing statistics where 
they are not really stressing the intended stuff to test, they could be 
parsing through the results where they are not stressing the backend 
while still claiming to be cpu intensive (though from a different 
perspective)

So yes a single process specially a client cannot claim to keep the 
backend 100% active but so can neither a connection pooler since it 
still has to some other stuff within the process.

-Jignesh

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