Re: zLinux Load Testing Experience

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Hastie <andrew(at)ahastie(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: zLinux Load Testing Experience
Date: 2013-05-01 22:56:38
Message-ID: 6108.1367448998@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Hastie <andrew(at)ahastie(dot)net> writes:
> Did you confirm that there is a native spinlocks implementation and it is being used? - I believe so as no errors or warnings logged during the build. Is there a simple way to check whether spin-locks are running native?

All non-ancient versions of PG force you to say "configure --disable-spinlocks"
to get a build without native spinlocks. Such builds are only
considered suitable for zero-order port testing, because the performance
hit is so bad.

regards, tom lane

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