Re: Hyper-Trading

On 7/10/07, Евгений Кононов <kononov(at)office(dot)tps(dot)uz> wrote:
> Здравствуйте, Andrej.
Privet ;) ... not that I speak any Russian, really.

>> ARB> What OS are you using, and what's hyper-trading? Hyper threading
>> ARB> by any chance? That's the OSes responsibility, not the databases.

> I'm use Fedora Core 5, based on two Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 3.16GHz
> processors with Hyper-Trading technology. It means, that I use 4
> virtual processors.
> And, then I run postgreSQL, he use only one processor and work very
> easy. I want to use postgreSQL on all my processors, but I don't know
> how did it.
As I said ... if the OS supports those hyperthreaded CPUs
properly (I assume you're seing four CPUs in /proc/cpuinfo?)
and you fire up concurrent connections to the database
the OS should start spreading the load across CPUs. It's
not the databases task (or capability) to make that decision.

> Thank's !
Cheers,
Andrej