Solaris is highly attuned to running threaded applications, and PostgreSQL is not that sort of application. So you're definitely not playing to Solaris' strengths.
Solaris is one of the platforms that has been noted for suffering from context switch slowdowns when hit with a lot of concurrent traffic, similar to Intel multiprocessor Xeons. I'd not go so far as to call it a _bad_ idea. But if I was paying the premium prices for that class of hardware, I think I'd rather have a PowerPC system... -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "gro.gultn" "@" "enworbbc")) http://linuxfinances.info/info/slony.html "Optimization hinders evolution." -- Alan Perlis ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
