Re: 7.2 is slow?

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: mathijs(at)ilse(dot)nl
Cc: hannu(at)tm(dot)ee, bpalmer(at)crimelabs(dot)net, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 7.2 is slow?
Date: 2001-12-17 14:12:53
Message-ID: 20011217231253J.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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> > How did you test ?
> >
> > I could do the same test on Dual Pentium III / 800 w/1024 MB
> > with IBM 45 G/7200 IDE disk.
> >
> > So we could compare different platforms as well :)
>
> I could do some testing on a Sun 450 / 4x400 MHz / 4 GB, if that's helpful.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mathijs
>

> I'll have 4 way and 8 way xeon boxes tues evening that I can test this
> against (though I won't get to test till wed unless I don't sleep)
>
> - Brandon

Thanks to everyone. Here are the methods I used for testings including
generating graphs (actually very simple).

(1) Tweak postgresql.conf to allow large concurrent users. I tested up
to 1024 on AIX, but for the comparison I think testing up to 128
users is enough. Here are example settings:

max_connections = 128
shared_buffers = 4096
deadlock_timeout = 100000

You might want to tweak wal_sync_method to get the best
performance. However this should not affect the comparison between
7.1 and 7.2.

(2) Run:

sh bench.sh

It will invoke pgbench for various concurrent users. So you need
to install pgbench beforehand (it's in contrib/pgbench. Just type
make install there to install pgbench).

This will take while.

(3) (2) will generate a file named "bench.data". The file have rows
where the first column is the number of concurrent users and
second one is the tps. Rename it to bench-7.2.data.

(4) Do (1) and (2) for PostgreSQL 7.1 and rename bench.data to
bench-7.1.data.

(5) Run plot.sh to see the result graph. Note that plot.sh requires
gnuplot.
---
Tatsuo Ishii

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bench.tar.gz application/octet-stream 752 bytes

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