Apologizes if this has already been announced - http://www.scribd.com/doc/551889/Introducing-Freebsd-70 a presentation of the SMP in FreeBSD 7.0 using PostgreSQL and MySQL to produce benchmarks. Notable quotes - a) MySQL degrades after utilizing all CPUs, while PostgreSQL does not (the explanation is that MySQL has scalability problem). b) PostgreSQL is in general 35%-45% faster. I can't tell if all is true, just wanted to make it public, if it hasn't been already made. Iv ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq