Re: RESOLVED: Re: Wierd context-switching issue on Xeon

From: Dirk Lutzebäck <lutzeb(at)aeccom(dot)com>
To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RESOLVED: Re: Wierd context-switching issue on Xeon
Date: 2004-04-19 07:27:57
Message-ID: 40837F7D.9050102@aeccom.com
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Josh, I cannot reproduce the excessive semop() on a Dual XEON DP on a
non-bigmem kernel, HT on. Interesting to know if the problem is related
to XEON MP (as Tom wrote) or bigmem.

Josh Berkus wrote:

>Dirk,
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>>I'm not sure if this semop() problem is still an issue but the database
>>behaves a bit out of bounds in this situation, i.e. consuming system
>>resources with semop() calls 95% while tables are locked very often and
>>longer.
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>>
>
>It would be helpful to us if you could test this with the indexes disabled on
>the non-Bigmem system. I'd like to eliminate Bigmem as a factor, if
>possible.
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>
>

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