On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:10:48AM +0000, Andres Retzlaff wrote: > Hi Magnus, > > in this case each CPU goes up to 50%, giveing me 50% total usage. I was > specting as you say 1 query 100% cpu. > > Any ideas? No. 1 query will only use 100% of *one* CPU, which means 50% total usage. You need at least one query per CPU to reach full 100% of the whole system. (Actually, you can get slightly above 50% since the query will run on one CPU and the OS and autovacuum and bgwriter can run on the other. But it's marginally) //Magnus