Jord Tanner wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 10:39, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > But CPU affinity isn't realated to hyperthreading, as far as I know. > > CPU affinity tries to keep processes on the same cpu in case there is > > still valuable info in the cpu cache. > > > > It is true that CPU affinity is designed to prevent the dump of valuable > CPU cache. My thought is that if you are trying to prevent CPU > contention, you could use CPU affinity to prevent 2 postmaster processes > from running simultaneously on the same die. Am I out to lunch here? > I've not worked with CPU affinity before, so I'm not familiar with the > intimate details.
I guess you could but it is the backends that use the cpu. I don't think manually specifying affinity will work for most applications. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
