Re: 8 cores of fun

Walter Vaughan wrote:
> I've got a few days to experiment with an 8 core box, and someone 
> pointed this page out to me 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html before I purchased 
> the box.
>
> Looking at the patch http://people.freebsd.org/~jeff/tophalf.diff it 
> doesn't appear to be patchable with 7-CURRENT.
>
> What I am interested in is Hi-speed Java (really wanted to work with 
> Java6) and Postgresql-8.2.
>
> Does anyone have any pointers for optimizing Posgresql & Java on 
> AMD-64 with 8 cores?
>
> -- 
> Walter
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The patch is no longer needed. The bits needed for the improvement were 
committed already if I'm not mistaken. There's another patch in testing 
that gives another ~25% boost to mysql and pgsql. So stay tuned.