Re: Postgres refusing to use >1 core

12.05.11 06:18, Aren Cambre ???????(??):
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> > Using one thread, the app can do about 111 rows per second, and it's
> > only exercising 1.5 of 8 CPU cores while doing this. 12,000,000
> rows /
> > 111 rows per second ~= 30 hours.
>
> I don't know how I missed that. You ARE maxing out one cpu core, so
> you're quite right that you need more threads unless you can make your
> single worker more efficient.
>
>
> And the problem is my app already has between 20 and 30 threads.
> Something about C#'s PLINQ may not be working as intended...
>
Have you checked that you are really doing fetch and processing in
parallel? Dunno about C#, but under Java you have to make specific
settings (e.g. setFetchSize) or driver will fetch all the data on query
run. Check time needed to fetch first row from the query.

Best regards, Vitalii Tymchyshyn