8 cores of fun

[Sean Bryant]

Sean Bryant wrote:
> 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.
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I stand corrected, there is no other patch that gives a substantial 
boost in the works. I apologize for the misinformation.