From: Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Sun Fire T2000 and PostgreSQL 8.1.3
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:12:43 -0400
Message-ID: <60fykrn02s.fsf@dba2.int.libertyrms.com> (raw)
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<200604051501.40109.josh@agliodbs.com>
josh@agliodbs.com (Josh Berkus) writes:
> Juan,
>
>> When I hit
>> this pgsql on this laptop with a large query I can see the load spike up
>> really high on both of my virtual processors. Whatever, pgsql is doing
>> it looks like both cpu's are being used indepently.
>
> Nope, sorry, you're being decieved. Postgres is strictly one process, one
> query.
It's not entirely deception; there is indeed independent use of both
CPUs, it's just that it isn't from multithreading...
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