* Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> [001210 12:19] wrote:
> > Postgre is not threaded, but every connection gets it's own process. The OS
> > will distribute the processes across the processors. Not sure I said that
> > very will.
> >
> > Basically a single connection will not be any faster with SMP, but multiple
> > connections will be.
>
> Actually, even a single process will be faster because all other system
> process will run on other cpu's.
Depending on how idle you are, the large overhead of bus locking
can cause a lot of perf degredation(sp?) for the idle SMP case.
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