Another data point:
HP BL-20 blade, two 'HYPErthreading' Intel Xeon CPUs
(looks like 4 CPUs to O/S)
Sort ~3.8GB distributed file with ~1.6M records by @ID
(@ID is multi-character alphanumeric value, e.g.
Z996894|13787)
(File has
Windows is usually happy with multiple threads in a process. If you have the
opportunity, try it both ways, and let us know whether you see any difference
when sorting large numbers of records (and/or multi-level sorts). As far as I
am aware (from hints dropped over the years by such as Dave
for actually doing the work!
Multi-threading is no faster, maybe even ~2% slower than
non-multithreading?
Mike
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Ray,
One data point so far:
HP BL-20 blade, two 'HYPErthreading' Intel Xeon
Ray
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Multi-threaded sort takes
