> That's only going to be true for very high end systems with multiple raid
> controllers and dozens of spindles.

Not true. I have a system right now that would benifit. My database is
only 500 megs and I have 2 gig of ram and two processors... I only have
a raid 1, but that is o.k. because most things are cached in memory
anyway.

> 
> On the other hand even moderately sized dual-core systems could probably
> benefit from being able to perform multiple cpu-intensive operations
> simultaneously.

See above :)

Joshua D. Drake

> 
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