Hello Mark, Just +$0.02 to Hugh's description. Some applications may explicitly parallelize their execution by creating asynchronous queues of small queries instead of running single big query. E.g., multiple cores are useful for multi-thread loading of large RDF files. Nevertheless this feature is for Virtuoso/PL routines and it does not affect running any single SQL SELECT statement.
Best Regards, Ivan Mikhailov, OpenLink Software http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 23:03 +0100, Hugh Williams wrote: > Hi Marc, > > A single query runs on single thread (plus I/O in separate thread) in > Virtuoso...