Re: Performance PG 8.0 on dual opteron / 4GB / 3ware

From: Joost Kraaijeveld <J(dot)Kraaijeveld(at)Askesis(dot)nl>
To: Steve Wampler <swampler(at)noao(dot)edu>
Cc: Luke Lonergan <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, Pgsql-Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Performance PG 8.0 on dual opteron / 4GB / 3ware
Date: 2005-11-15 19:51:27
Message-ID: 1132084287.3250.41.camel@Panoramix
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On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 12:41 -0700, Steve Wampler wrote:
> Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> > If I understand correctly (I have 4GB ram):
> >
> > jkr(at)Panoramix:~/tmp$ dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=8k count=1000000
> > 1000000+0 records in
> > 1000000+0 records out
> > 8192000000 bytes transferred in 304.085269 seconds (26939812 bytes/sec)
> >
> > Which looks suspicious: 26308 MB/sec???
>
> Eh? That looks more like ~25.7 MB/sec, assuming 1MB = 1024*1024 bytes.
Oooops. This calculation error is not typical for my testing (I think ;-)).

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