"Jignesh K. Shah" <J.K.Shah@xxxxxxx> writes: > Then for the power run that is essentially running one query at a time should > essentially be able to utilize the full system (specially multi-core systems), > unfortunately PostgreSQL can use only one core. (Plus since this is read only > and there is no separate disk reader all other processes are idle) and system > is running at 1/Nth capacity (where N is the number of cores/threads) Is the whole benchmark like this or is this just one part of it? Is the i/o system really able to saturate the cpu though? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's On-Demand Production Tuning ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq