Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I have tested PostgreSQL with 2-4 CPU linux boxes. In summary, 2 CPU
>> was a big win, but 4 was not. I'm not sure where the bottle neck is
>> though.

> Our not-very-good implementation of spin locking (using select() to
> wait) might have something to do with this.  Sometime soon I'd like to
> look at using POSIX semaphores where available, instead of spinlocks.

did anyone from here follow the discussion about postgresql on
smp machines on the linux kernel malinglist in the last days?
(just as an info)

t

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