Vacumm full done after each run. pg_resetlog run between each server start Scaling factor: 10 Initialization time: real 1m44.512s user 0m1.765s sys 0m0.134s Kernel 2.6.0-test4 Effective cache size 38400 (300MB) checkpoint segments=6 1)Shared buffers 1000 pgbench -c5 -t100 test1 tps = 135.647884 (including connections establishing) tps = 138.318785 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c5 -t1000 test1 tps = 61.097461 (including connections establishing) tps = 61.144720 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c10 -t100 test1 tps = 121.626566 (including connections establishing) tps = 123.517787 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c10 -t1000 test1 tps = 54.618036 (including connections establishing) tps = 54.654704 (excluding connections establishing) 2) Shared buffers 2000 pgbench -c5 -t100 test1 tps = 131.715307 (including connections establishing) tps = 134.220729 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c5 -t1000 test1 tps = 74.486274 (including connections establishing) tps = 74.559177 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c10 -t100 test1 tps = 127.431602 (including connections establishing) tps = 129.461754 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c10 -t1000 test1 tps = 51.840810 (including connections establishing) tps = 51.875044 (excluding connections establishing)