From: | "Gregory S(dot) Williamson" <gsw(at)globexplorer(dot)com> |
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To: | "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Matt Clark" <matt(at)ymogen(dot)net> |
Cc: | "Ron Johnson" <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>, "PgSQL Performance ML" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Hardware recommendations to scale to silly load |
Date: | 2003-09-10 07:40:45 |
Message-ID: | 71E37EF6B7DCC1499CEA0316A25683280105717D@loki.wc.globexplorer.net |
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Nitpicking --
Perhaps the 4th data line is meant to be:
Inserts in separate transactions 2500 inserts/second
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
??
Greg Williamson
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Tue 9/9/2003 8:25 PM
To: Matt Clark
Cc: Ron Johnson; PgSQL Performance ML
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Hardware recommendations to scale to silly load
Matt Clark wrote:
> > Just a data point, but on my Dual Xeon 2.4Gig machine with a 10k SCSI
> > drive I can do 4k inserts/second if I turn fsync off. If you have a
> > battery-backed controller, you should be able to do the same. (You will
> > not need to turn fsync off --- fsync will just be fast because of the
> > disk drive RAM).
> >
> > Am I missing something?
>
> I think Ron asked this, but I will too, is that 4k inserts in
> one transaction or 4k transactions each with one insert?
>
> fsync is very much faster (as are all random writes) with the
> write-back cache, but I'd hazard a guess that it's still not
> nearly as fast as turning fsync off altogether. I'll do a test
> perhaps...
Sorry to be replying late. Here is what I found.
fsync on
Inserts all in one transaction 3700 inserts/second
Inserts in separate transactions 870 inserts/second
fsync off
Inserts all in one transaction 3700 inserts/second
Inserts all in one transaction 2500 inserts/second
ECPG test program attached.
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