Re: More shared buffers causes lower performances

Hello

I tested it and it is true. In my configuration 1GRam, Fedora 8, is
PostgreSQL most fast with 32M shared buffers :(. Diff is about 5% to
256M

Regards
Pavel Stehule

On 26/12/2007, Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Dec 26, 2007 12:21 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 0
> >
> > So we can see if the bgwriter has any hand in this?
>
> It doesn't change the behaviour I have.
>
> It's not checkpointing either as using pgbench-tools, I can see that
> tps and latency are quite stable during the entire run. Btw, thanks
> Greg for these nice tools.
>
> I thought it may be some sort of lock contention so I made a few tests
> with -N but I have the same behaviour.
>
> Then I decided to perform read-only tests using -S option (pgbench -S
> -s 100 -c 16 -t 30000 -U postgres bench). And still the same
> behaviour:
> shared_buffers=64MB : 20k tps
> shared_buffers=1024MB : 8k tps
>
> Any other idea?
>
> --
> Guillaume
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