Vacumm full done after each run. pg_resetlog run between each server start Scaling factor: 10 Initialization time: real 1m42.282s user 0m1.787s sys 0m0.121s Kernel 2.6.0-test4 Effective cache size 38400 (300MB) checkpoint segments=6 1)Shared buffers 1000 pgbench -c5 -t100 test1 tps = 131.962542 (including connections establishing) tps = 134.418358 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c5 -t1000 test1 tps = 79.301493 (including connections establishing) tps = 79.393258 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c10 -t100 test1 tps = 64.917044 (including connections establishing) tps = 65.438067 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c10 -t1000 test1 tps = 66.135615 (including connections establishing) tps = 66.193039 (excluding connections establishing) 2) Shared buffers 2000 pgbench -c5 -t100 test1 tps = 135.598994 (including connections establishing) tps = 138.296634 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c5 -t1000 test1 tps = 81.331678 (including connections establishing) tps = 81.425369 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c10 -t100 test1 tps = 116.524476 (including connections establishing) tps = 118.388407 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c10 -t1000 test1 tps = 64.659894 (including connections establishing) tps = 64.719829 (excluding connections establishing) 3) Shared buffers 3000 pgbench -c5 -t100 test tps = 132.489569 (including connections establishing) tps = 135.177003 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c5 -t1000 test tps = 70.272855 (including connections establishing) tps = 70.343452 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c10 -t100 test tps = 121.624524 (including connections establishing) tps = 123.549086 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c10 -t1000 test tps = 64.124644 (including connections establishing) tps = 64.183736 (excluding connections establishing) 4) noatime enabled Shared buffers 3000 pgbench -c5 -t100 test tps = 90.850600 (including connections establishing) tps = 92.053686 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c5 -t1000 test tps = 92.209724 (including connections establishing) tps = 92.329682 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c10 -t100 test tps = 79.264231 (including connections establishing) tps = 80.145448 (excluding connections establishing) pgbench -c10 -t1000 test tps = 70.439082 (including connections establishing) tps = 70.506189 (excluding connections establishing)