Re: Pgsql (and mysql) benchmark on T2000/Solaris and some

Hi Arjen,

Looking at your outputs...of syscall and usrcall it looks like

* Spending too much time in semsys .... which means you have too many
connections and they are contending to get a lock.. which is potentially
the WAL log lock

* llseek is high which means you can obviously gain a bit with the right
file system/files tuning by caching them right.

Have you set the values for Solaris for T2000 tuned for Postgresql?

Check out the tunables from the following URL

http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/tnb/applications_postgresql.jsp

Try specially the /etc/system and postgresql.conf changes and see if it
changes/improves your performance.

Regards,
Jignesh

Arjen van der Meijden wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> In the past few weeks we have been developing a read-heavy
> mysql-benchmark to have an alternative take at cpu/platform-performance.
> Not really to have a look at how fast mysql can be.
>
> This benchmark runs on mysql 4.1.x, 5.0.x and 5.1.x and is modelled
> after our website's production database and the load generated on it is
> modelled after a simplified version of our visitor behaviour.
>
> Long story short, we think the test is a nice example of the relatively
> lightweight, read-heavy webapplications out there and therefore decided
> to have a go at postgresql as well.
> Of course the queries and indexes have been adjusted to (by our
> knowledge) best suit postgresql, while maintaining the same output to
> the application/interface layer. While the initial structure only got
> postgresql at about half the performance of mysql 4.1.x, the current
> version of our postgresql-benchmark has quite similar results to mysql
> 4.1.x, but both are quite a bit slower than 5.0.x (I think its about
> 30-40% faster).
>
> Since the results from those benchmarks are not yet public (they will be
> put together in a story at our website), I won't go into too much
> details about this benchmark.
>
> Currently we're having a look at a Sun T2000 and will be looking at will
> be looking at other machines as well in the future. We are running the
> sun-release of postgresql 8.1.3 on that T2000 now, but are looking at
> compiling the cvs-head version (for its index-root-cache) somewhere this
> week.
>
> My guess is there are a few people on this list who are interested in
> some dtrace results taken during our benchmarks on that T2000.
> Although my knowledge of both Solaris and Dtrace are very limited, I
> already took some samples of the system and user calls. I used Jignesh
> Shah's scripts for that:
> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jkshah?entry=profiling_postgresql_using_dtrace_on
>
>
> You can find the samples here:
> http://achelois.tweakers.net/~acm/pgsql-t2000/syscall.log
> http://achelois.tweakers.net/~acm/pgsql-t2000/usrcall.log
>
> And I also did the memcpy-scripts, here:
> http://achelois.tweakers.net/~acm/pgsql-t2000/memcpysize.log
> http://achelois.tweakers.net/~acm/pgsql-t2000/memcpystack.log
> (this last log is 3.5MB)
>
> If anyone is interested in some more dtrace results, let me know (and
> tell me what commands to run ;-) ).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Arjen
>
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