Yes it can use multiple cores. Mysqld is a multithreaded service.

Saravanan

--- On Sat, 5/10/08, JW <jw@mailsw.com> wrote:

> From: JW <jw@mailsw.com>
> Subject: Best CPU config for a busy DB server
> To: mysql@lists.mysql.com
> Date: Saturday, May 10, 2008, 3:52 AM
> Hey everyone,
>
> I'm pretty sure this is right but I wanted to
> double-check:
>
> Is it correct that mysql 5.0 is threaded in such a way that
> a DB server taking
> lots of queries from many clients will be able to utilize
> lots of CPUs/core
> on a multi-cpu, multi-core system?
>
> Or are multi CPUs/cores a waste?
>
> Thanks,
>
> JW
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