Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives are dead)

From: Maarten Boekhold <maarten(dot)boekhold(at)tibcofinance(dot)com>
To: Adam Rossi <adam(dot)rossi(at)platinumsolutions(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives are dead)
Date: 1999-12-15 16:22:09
Message-ID: 3857C031.2BD26E88@tibcofinance.com
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> Since the db is not multithreaded, I assume that buying a dual processor
> board and two processors would not be helpful to performance. Like any

If your disk subsystem can take the load, it does make sense. For every
connection to PostgreSQL, a seperate backend is started, which is really a
seperate process which so can run on a different processor.

Maarten

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