From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 12 0:27:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD6137BCDD for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 00:27:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e4C7xh429376; Fri, 12 May 2000 00:59:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 00:59:43 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Brennan W Stehling Cc: Chris Phillips , Mitch Vincent , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD SMP Message-ID: <20000512005943.B29302@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000511145256.O4889@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from brennan@offwhite.net on Thu, May 11, 2000 at 11:39:23PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, 11 May 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > * Chris Phillips [000511 13:57] wrote: > > > You will need 4 Xeon processors to do the 4 way SMP. I do not believe > > > there is a database that runs native on FreeBSD and not through emulation > > > what would even be able to take advantage of all that processing > > > power. There seems to be very little documentation on FreeBSD's ability > > > to run Oracle. Perhaps the money that you were going to invest in > > > processing power would be better spent on some raid or ram. > > > > > > > Postgresql will. > > * Brennan W Stehling [000511 22:11] wrote: > Are you saying Postgresql will be able to use a quad processor system? Or > are you saying it is a processor hog? Postgresql is a multi-process database so queries should be spread out onto mutiple backends that will be scheduled on seperate processors. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message