Merlin, > just FYI: tyan makes a 8 socket motherboard (up to 16 cores!): > http://www.swt.com/vx50.html > > It can be loaded with up to 128 gb memory if all the sockets > are filled :). Cool! Just remember that you can't get more than 1 CPU working on a query at a time without a parallel database. - Luke ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org