Re: Sun vs a P2. Interesting results.

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Jeff <threshar(at)torgo(dot)978(dot)org>
Cc: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy(at)wavefire(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Sun vs a P2. Interesting results.
Date: 2003-08-26 19:37:29
Message-ID: 20030826193729.GG64198@home.samurai.com
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:05:12PM -0400, Jeff wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
> > I'm still seeing differences in the planner estimates, have you run a VACUUM
> > ANALYZE prior to running these tests?
> >
> I did. I shall retry that.. but the numbers (the cost estimates) are
> pretty close on both. the actual times are very different.

I don't see why you need to bother, the query plans & cost estimates
are similar enough I doubt that's the problem.

> As I said in my first email IO isn't the problem here - the data set is
> small enough that it is all cached (~10MB). iostat reports 0 activity on
> the disks on both the sun and p2.

Would it be possible to get a profile (e.g. gprof output) for a postgres
backend executing the query on the Sun machine?

-Neil

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