Re: Listen / Notify rewrite

From: Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andrew Chernow <andrew(at)esilo(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Listen / Notify rewrite
Date: 2009-11-16 21:41:51
Message-ID: dc7b844e0911161341q44f3fac2id9d86187f0192114@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> The old method (measured on a 4 core high performance server) has
> severe scaling issues due to table bloat (we knew that):
> ./pgbench -c 10 -t 1000 -n -b listen.sql -f notify.sql
> run #1 tps = 1364.948079 (including connections establishing)

> new method on my dual core workstation (max payload 128):
> ./pgbench -c 10 -t 10000 -n -b listen.sql -f notify.sql -hlocalhost postgres
> tps = 16343.012373 (including connections establishing)

That looks fine and is similar to my tests where I also see a
performance increase of about 10x, and unlike pg_listener it is
constant.

> getting sporadic 'LOG:  could not send data to client: Broken pipe'
> throughout the test.

This looks like the server is trying to send a notification down to
the client but the client has already terminated the connection...

Joachim

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