On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 22:45, Li YueXin wrote: > I found postgresql running on the multi CPU machine doesn't have > better performance than single CPU machine. Can you explain the > reason?
In addition to what Christopher Browne suggests, keep in mind that PostgreSQL spawns a separate Unix process for each client connection. Since each process can run on at most one CPU at any given time, if the # of concurrent queries your application submits is < than the # of CPUs in the machine, PostgreSQL won't take advantage of all your CPUs. It would be possible to spread the execution of a single query over multiple CPUs (say, have different nodes in the query tree execute on different CPUs concurrently), but I highly doubt PostgreSQL will bother doing that anytime soon. -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match