"[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: 
> Scott Carey:
> 
>> You are CPU bound.
>> 
>> 30% of 4 cores is greater than 25%.  25% is one core fully
>> used.
> 
> I have measured the cores separately. Some of them reached
> 30%. I am not CPU bound here.
 
If you have numbers like that when running one big query, or a
stream of queries one-at-a-time, you are CPU bound.  A single
request only uses one CPU at a time although it could switch among a
number of them, if the OS doesn't make an effort to keep each
process with the same CPU.
 
-Kevin

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