Tom, > What I think this means is that the kernel is scheduling the 2 processes > onto 2 processors chosen-at-random, without awareness of whether those > two processors are on the same chip (in the Xeon case) or have closer > NUMA affinity (in the Opteron case).
That would be consistent with my experience with HT, and the reason why many software vendors recommend disabling it. Not sure about NUMA. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq