Re: [GENERAL] poor cpu utilization on dual cpu box

2003-10-22 Thread Andreas Fromm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is probably not really a pg issue that you don't get your CPUs fully used. I would guess that one CPU saturates the memory bus or the disk bandwidth depending on where your data is. This is the typical behavior for memory bounded applications where

[GENERAL] poor cpu utilization on dual cpu box

2003-10-22 Thread Simon Sadedin
Folks,   I’m hoping someone can give me some pointers to resolving an issue with postgres and it’s ability to utilize multiple CPUs effectively.   The issue is that no matter how much query load we throw at our server it seems almost impossible to get it to utilize more than 50% cpu on a dual-cpu