Re: Speed up Clog Access by increasing CLOG buffers

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Speed up Clog Access by increasing CLOG buffers
Date: 2016-10-31 19:43:56
Message-ID: CAA4eK1KC6uQHWhOMmkoACx1OJeKjcGxMU42WapjFVvN6FFuxJQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Tomas Vondra
<tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 10/31/2016 02:51 PM, Amit Kapila wrote:
> And moreover, this setup (single device for the whole cluster) is very
> common, we can't just neglect it.
>
> But my main point here really is that the trade-off in those cases may not
> be really all that great, because you get the best performance at 36/72
> clients, and then the tps drops and variability increases. At least not
> right now, before tackling contention on the WAL lock (or whatever lock
> becomes the bottleneck).
>

Okay, but does wait event results show increase in contention on some
other locks for pgbench-3000-logged-sync-skip-64? Can you share wait
events for the runs where there is a fluctuation?

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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