Hi all, We are working on a patch which targets the overhead of spinlock in buffer cache.In this regard, we need to exercise buffer spinlock contention on a 16 core machine. Could anyone please suggest some good methods for exercising the same? Regards, Atri Sent from my iPad -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance