Re: [GENERAL] Multiple postgres.exe On Processes

2009-02-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Serge Fonville wrote: > I could not find the reason as to why this way has been chosen by the > developers Because separate processes are much more robust than multiple threads. And on Linux, the difference in performance is minimal. Note some OSes like Windows

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple postgres.exe On Processes

2009-02-12 Thread Abdul Rahman
Dear All, Thanks John R Pierce for replying fruitful text. I wold like to add some text in your reply from PostgreSQL document for further clarification. i.e. Each connection runs one process, plus the 3 master processes for the postmaster, the writer, etc. with two logins, I'd expect to s

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple postgres.exe On Processes

2009-02-12 Thread Harald Armin Massa
Just adding: > processes. with 102 concurrent logins, 105 processes. the bulk of the > memory and code is shared by these processes, with the exception of things > like per client work_mem buffers which by definition can't be shared as they please be advised that the default-view of TaskManage

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple postgres.exe On Processes

2009-02-12 Thread Grzegorz Jaƛkiewicz
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Re: [GENERAL] Multiple postgres.exe On Processes

2009-02-12 Thread Serge Fonville
> > I have fear that sufficient increase in number of postgres.exe after one or > two logins on servers may down the speed of the server or even server. Is > there any solution or technique to overcome this overhead. > I did some more searching and foundIs PostgreSQL multi-threaded?

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple postgres.exe On Processes

2009-02-12 Thread Serge Fonville
Hi, > I have fear that sufficient increase in number of postgres.exe after one > or two logins on servers may down the speed of the server or even server. Is > there any solution or technique to overcome this overhead. > Did you test this? What OS are you using? With PostgreSQL every connection

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple postgres.exe On Processes

2009-02-12 Thread John R Pierce
Abdul Rahman wrote: I have fear that sufficient increase in number of postgres.exe after one or two logins on servers may down the speed of the server or even server. Is there any solution or technique to overcome this overhead. each connection runs one process, plus the 3 master processes for

[GENERAL] Multiple postgres.exe On Processes

2009-02-11 Thread Abdul Rahman
Dear All, I have fear that sufficient increase in number of postgres.exe after one or two logins on servers may down the speed of the server or even server. Is there any solution or technique to overcome this overhead. Regards, Abdul Rehman.