On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 09:47 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> A less hacker and more DBA bottleneck will be to limit the number of
> backends being created for restore. We don't really want to have more
> than one backend per CPU, otherwise we just start switching.
Are you sure that it would always be a loss?
If there is any significant I/O latency for a single backend, it seems
like a context switch could be a win for processor utilization. It might
not be a win overall, but at least potentially a win.
Regards,Jeff Davis