Re: AIX slow buffer reads

----- Mensagem original -----
| On 10-10-25 03:26 PM, André Volpato wrote:
| > | On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:21 PM, André Volpato
| > |<andre(dot)volpato(at)ecomtecnologia(dot)com(dot)br> wrote:

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| > |> These times keep repeating after the second run, and I can
| > |> ensure AIX isn´t touching the disks anymore.
| > |> I´ve never seen this behaviour before. I heard about Direct I/O
| > |> and I was thinking about givng it a shot.
| > |>
| > |> Any ideas?
| > |>
| > |
| > | I doubt disk/io is the problem.
| >
| > Me either.
| > Like I said, AIX do not touch the storage when runing the query.
| > It became CPU-bound after data got into cache.
|
| Have you confirmed that the hardware is ok on both servers?
|

The hardware was recently instaled and checked by the vendor team.
AIX box is on JS22:
PostgreSQL 8.4.4, AIX 5.3-9 64bits, SAN IBM DS3400, 8x450GB SAS 15K Raid-5
8GB RAM (DDR2 667)

# lsconf
System Model: IBM,7998-61X
Processor Type: PowerPC_POWER6
Processor Implementation Mode: POWER 6
Processor Version: PV_6
Number Of Processors: 4
Processor Clock Speed: 4005 MHz
CPU Type: 64-bit
Kernel Type: 64-bit
Memory Size: 7680 MB

Debian box is on HS21:
PostgreSQL 8.4.4, Debian 4.3.2 64bits, SAN IBM DS3400, 5x300GB SAS 15K Raid-0
7GB RAM (DDR2 667)
We are forced to use RedHat on this machine, so we are virtualizing the Debian box.

# cpuinfo
processor : [0-7]
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 2500.148
cache size : 6144 KB

| Have both OS's been tuned by people that know how to tune the
| respective OS's? AIX is very different than Linux, and needs to be tuned
| accordingly.

We´ve been tuning AIX for the last 3 weeks, and lots of tuneables got changed.
On Debian, we have far more experience, and it´s been a chalenge to understand how AIX works.

Most important tunes:
page_steal_method=1
lru_file_repage=0
kernel_heap_psize=64k
maxperm%=90
maxclient%=90
minperm%=20

Disk:
chdev -l hdisk8 -a queue_depth=24
chdev -l hdisk8 -a reserve_policy=no_reserve
chdev -l hdisk8 -a algorithm=round_robin
chdev -l hdisk8 -a max_transfer=0x400000

HBA:
chdev -l fcs0 -P -a max_xfer_size=0x400000 -a num_cmd_elems=1024

Postgres:
shared_buffers = 2304MB
effective_io_concurrency = 5
wal_sync_method = fdatasync
wal_buffers = 2MB
checkpoint_segments = 32
checkpoint_timeout = 10min
random_page_cost = 2.5
effective_cache_size = 7144MB

Like I said, there´s more but this is the most important.

|
| On AIX can you trace why it is CPU bound? What else is taking the CPU
| time, anything?|

We´re using iostat, svmon and vmstat to trace CPU, swap and IO activity.
On 'topas' we saw no disk activity at all, but we get a Wait% about 70%, and about 700 pages/s read in PageIn, no PageOut, no PgspIn and no PgspOut.
It´s a dedicated server, no process runing besides postgres.

| Also, can you provide the output of pg_config from your AIX build?

# pg_config
BINDIR = /usr/local/pgsql/bin
DOCDIR = /usr/local/pgsql/share/doc
HTMLDIR = /usr/local/pgsql/share/doc
INCLUDEDIR = /usr/local/pgsql/include
PKGINCLUDEDIR = /usr/local/pgsql/include
INCLUDEDIR-SERVER = /usr/local/pgsql/include/server
LIBDIR = /usr/local/pgsql/lib
PKGLIBDIR = /usr/local/pgsql/lib
LOCALEDIR = /usr/local/pgsql/share/locale
MANDIR = /usr/local/pgsql/share/man
SHAREDIR = /usr/local/pgsql/share
SYSCONFDIR = /usr/local/pgsql/etc
PGXS = /usr/local/pgsql/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk
CONFIGURE = '--enable-integer-datetimes' '--with-readline' '--with-threads' '--with-zlib' '--with-html' 'CC=gcc -maix64' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-bbigtoc'
CC = gcc -maix64
CPPFLAGS =
CFLAGS = -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv
CFLAGS_SL =
LDFLAGS = -Wl,-bbigtoc -Wl,-blibpath:/usr/local/pgsql/lib:/usr/lib:/lib
LDFLAGS_SL = -Wl,-bnoentry -Wl,-H512 -Wl,-bM:SRE
LIBS = -lpgport -lz -lreadline -lld -lm
VERSION = PostgreSQL 8.4.4

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| Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106
| Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.

[]´s, Andre Volpato