Re: multi-threaded pgbench

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Josh Williams wrote:

> Maybe pgbench itself is less of a bottleneck in this environment,
> relatively speaking?

On UNIXish systems, you know you've reached the conditions under which the
threaded pgbench would be helpful if the pgbench client program itself is
taking up a large percentage of a CPY just by itself. If your test system
is still setup, it might be interesting to try the 64 and 128 client cases
with Task Manager open, to see what percentage of the CPU the pgbench
driver program is using. If the pgbench client isn't already pegged at a
full CPU, I wouldn't necessarily threading it to help--it would just add
overhead that doesn't buy you anything, which seems to be what you're
measuring.

All the Linux tests suggest that limit tends up show up at over 20,000 TPS
nowawadys, so maybe your Window system is bottlenecking somewhere
completely different before it reaches saturation on the client.

In any case, Josh's review is exactly what I wanted to see here--the code
does compile and run successfully for someone besides its author under
Windows. Making it *effective* on that platform might end up being
outside the scope of what we want to chew on right now. I'll have updated
performance results to submit later this week against the updated patch.

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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD