Re: core 2 duo

At 08:21 AM 12/17/06, Sean Davis wrote:

>Frank Bax wrote:
>>This might be old news to a lot of people, but I'm wondering if pg will
>>automatically use both processors concurrently in a Core 2 Duo
>>system.  I'm planning to install OpenBSD 4.0 with SMP kernel (bsd.mp) and
>>install pg using their binary 8.1.5 package.
>
>
>I don't think so.  These SMP machines are simply two processors.  If you
>run one query, only one process is used, so only one processor.  If you
>have two independent queries (from two different users, for example), two
>processes will be used and then the second processor can be utilized.


I assumed it wouldn't use two processors on one query.  I was wondering if
independent queries would automatically use multiple processors when
available; or if some special action had to be invoked (like compile time
switch or config option) before this behaviour was possible.  Sounds like
we get this behaviour "out of the box".  Great.