Re: Database multi-threading

From: Frank Bax <fbax(at)sympatico(dot)ca>
To: "Travis Hoyt" <thoyt(at)npc(dot)net>
Cc: "Postgres" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Database multi-threading
Date: 2002-02-15 19:48:40
Message-ID: 3.0.6.32.20020215144840.01ba79a0@pop6.sympatico.ca
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Your system should use multiple processors when you have concurrent
connections active. A restore from a pg_dumpall file only uses one
connection. If you had create separate pg_dump files from your old system,
then start restore on each file separately; you would then use multiple
processors.

Frank

At 02:35 PM 2/15/02 -0500, Travis Hoyt wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>Just got lucky enough to swipe an 8 processor server and I'm trying to find
>out how I can make the most of my resources. Doing a restore from a
>pg_dumpall I see that the postmaster is basically dogging one CPU. Anyone
>know how I can make the postmaster share the love? Any info on general
>performance enchancements would be greatly appreciated as well. This system
>has lots of disk space, 2 Gb of memory and again 8 processors. Any thoughts
>would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Travis

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