Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> If you estimate that a process dispatch cycle is ~ 10 microseconds,
>> then waking 999 useless processes every 10 msec is just about enough
>> to consume 100% of the CPU doing nothing useful...
> Don't we back off the sleeps or was that code removed?
Not enough to affect this calculation.
regards, tom lane