>>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:10 AM, in message <76758090F8686C47A44B6FF52514A1D30904E0B5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Lee Keel <lee.keel@xxxxxxx> wrote: > there will probably be no more than 50 simultaneous requests. > Dual-Quad Core 2.33GHz My benchmarks have indicated that you want to keep the number of active queries at or below four times the number of CPUs. You might want to consider some form of connection pooling which can queue the requests to achieve that. It can boost both the throughput and the response time. -Kevin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match