Re: That EXPLAIN ANALYZE patch still needs work

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: That EXPLAIN ANALYZE patch still needs work
Date: 2006-06-09 13:13:18
Message-ID: 20060609131318.GD19659@surnet.cl
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 17:21 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > > Tried on two machines. The first (Turion64 laptop) gives 44-45 ms for
> > > the SELECT, and 50-51 ms for the EXPLAIN ANALYZE.
> >
> > > The second machine, desktop Celeron 533, gives 197-200 ms for the SELECT
> > > and 788-790 for the EXPLAIN ANALYZE. I guess this is the reproduction
> > > you were looking for.
> >
> > Do you have oprofile installed on these? Comparing oprofile results
> > might give some more insight where the time is going.
>
> On my office PC the overhead from EA is about 20%.

Can you please run the test program in this thread, if you are running
Linux?

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114297656924494&w=2

The machine I reported to show the problem says

# ./a.out 0xe408
0
./a.out: Detect PM-Timer Bug

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