Re: [REVIEW] Re: Compression of full-page-writes

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>> compression = 'on' : 1838 secs
>> = 'off' : 1701 secs
>>
>> Different is around 140 secs.
>
> OK, so the compression took 2x the cpu and was 8% slower. The only
> benefit is WAL files are 35% smaller?

Compression didn't take 2x the CPU. It increased user CPU from 354.20
s to 562.67 s over the course of the run, so it took about 60% more
CPU.

But I wouldn't be too discouraged by that. At least AIUI, there are
quite a number of users for whom WAL volume is a serious challenge,
and they might be willing to pay that price to have less of it. Also,
we have talked a number of times before about incorporating Snappy or
LZ4, which I'm guessing would save a fair amount of CPU -- but the
decision was made to leave that out of the first version, and just use
pg_lz, to keep the initial patch simple. I think that was a good
decision.

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