Scott Carey <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you wake up 10,000 threads, and they all can get significant work > done before yielding no matter what order they run, the system will > scale extremely well. But with roughly twice the average response time you would get throttling active requests to the minimum needed to keep all resources busy. (Admittedly a hard point to find with precision.) > I would think that the 4 or 5 most important locks or concurrency > coordination points in Postgres have very specific, unique > properties. Given the wide variety of uses I'd be cautious about such assumptions. > In particular, these are interesting references, (not only for java): With this wealth of opinion, perhaps they can soon approach IBM's JVM in their ability to support a large number of threads. I'm rooting for them. -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance