On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Piotr Kublicki <Piotr.Kublicki@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry to be a royal pain, but I cannot find it anywhere in the > documentation: how many threads/CPU cores Postgres v. 8.4 can utilise? > We're thinking about installing Postgres on a virtual machine (RedHat 5 > 64-bits), however not sure how many CPUs can be wisely assigned, without > wasting of resources. Can Postgres utilise multi-core/multi-threaded > architecture in a reasonably extent? postgresql will gladly munch on everything you throw at it unless you are running a single user app. how many cores to assign has more to do with the VM technology you are using than anything else. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general