Remember when I blogged about linear read scalability out to 32 cores? Well, the awesome Nate Boley provided me with access to his brand new 64-core server. I ran my usual suite of read-only pgbench tests just to baseline its performance, and found that the performance scaled linearly all the way out to 64 clients. OK, it wasn't quite linear: the 64-client performance was only 63.68 times the single-client performance. Still, I'll take it. Graph is below.
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