Re: futex results with dbt-3

Tom Lane wrote:
> Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com> writes:
>
>>I proposed weeks ago to see how the CSStorm is affected by stick each
>>backend in one processor ( where the process was born ) using the
>>cpu-affinity capability ( kernel 2.6 ), is this proposal completely
>>out of mind ?
>
>
> That was investigated long ago.  See for instance
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2004-04/msg00313.php
>

If I read correctly this help on the CSStorm, I guess also that this could
also help the performances. Unfortunatelly I do not have any kernel 2.6 running
on SMP to give it a try.


Regards
Gaetano Mendola