On 04/05/2011 02:21 PM, Mischa Sandberg wrote:
Came across the following in a paper from Oct 2010. Was wondering is
this is old news I missed in this group.
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/linux:osdi10.pdf
about Linux optimization on multi-core CPU's.
Only a little old;
http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/MIT-benchmarks-pgsql-multicore-up-to-48-performance-td3173545.html
shows most of the obvious comments to be made about it. There is more
detail explaining why the hand-waving done in the paper about increasing
NUM_LOCK_PARTITIONS is not a simple improvement at
http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Lock-partitions-td1952557.html
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