Re: [GENERAL] PG 8.1 on Dual XEON with FreeBSD 6.0

2005-11-17 Thread Daniel Kalchev
This is how multiprocessor systems work. You will benefit from the second processor when you run another query in paralell. There is no way as far as I am aware to run single task on both processors (except maybe by using threads?) By the way, Intel processor's Hyperthreading provides not two CP

Re: [GENERAL] memory

1999-12-05 Thread Daniel Kalchev
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > 1) Can someone explain how postgreSQL uses memory so that I can > understand > what I should be doing here. > BTW, I am running postgres with -B 884. Can someone also explain how > postgres uses shared mem so that I can have a cl