Re: [GENERAL] Hardware optimising

From: Andy Lewis <alewis(at)roundnoon(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Aaron J(dot) Seigo" <aaron(at)gtv(dot)ca>, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Hardware optimising
Date: 1999-08-27 00:32:44
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.05.9908261932230.10350-100000@rns.roundnoon.com
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What scheduler are we speaking of here?

Andy

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > as for the processor, this will see an increase, of course. note,
> > however, that since PostgreSQL is _not_ multithreaded, that it will run
> > only on one of the processors. (i'm about to assume you are using linux
> > here... 'scuse me if i'm wrong) however, the good news is that you can
> > encourage linux (through the scheduler) to run postgres on one of the
> > processors and everything else on the other one. this should give the
> > database its own processor more oft than not. things may still drift,
> > etc... but it will be better this way....
>
> Different backends can use different CPU's, no problem.
>
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