Re: write scalability

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 07/25/2011 04:07 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>>
>>> I did 5-minute pgbench runs with unlogged tables and with permanent
>>> tables, restarting the database server and reinitializing the tables
>>> between each run.
>>
>> Database scale?  One or multiple pgbench worker threads?  A reminder on the
>> amount of RAM in the server would be helpful for interpreting the results
>> too.
>
> Ah, sorry.  scale = 100, so small.  pgbench invocation is:
>

It might be worthwhile to test only with the accounts and history
table and also increasing the number of statements in a transaction.
Otherwise the tiny tables can quickly become a bottleneck.

Thanks,
Pavan

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