Re: How many threads/cores Postgres can utilise?

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Piotr Kublicki <Piotr.Kublicki@iop.org> wrote:
>
>> Dears,
>>
>> Sorry to be a royal pain, but I cannot find it anywhere in the
>> documentation: how many threads/CPU cores Postgres v. 8.4 can utilise?
>> We're thinking about installing Postgres on a virtual machine (RedHat 5
>> 64-bits), however not sure how many CPUs can be wisely assigned, without
>> wasting of resources. Can Postgres utilise multi-core/multi-threaded
>> architecture in a reasonably extent?
>>
>
> Like Craig mentioned, each connection uses one core basically, and the
> OS can use one or maybe two.  But that means that on even moderately
> busy servers 4 to 8 cores is very reasonable.  On modern hardware it's
> easy to get 6 or 8 cores pretty cheaply.  2P machines can have 12 or
> 16 cores for pretty cheap too.
>

the author mentions virtual machines, where you're trying to squeeze as
much workload as possible onto those 8 or 12 cores ...