> I had (allready) saved the thread in my mail-account so I could look > it up before I started testing. :-) So I compiled postgresql with the > option WITH_THREADSAFE=3Dtrue and used sysbench with --pgsql-host=3D"" = =2E > As pointed out by Ivan my test also involved r/w whereas the thread > you (probably) mention at > http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.stable/browse_thread/thr= ead/e224cd4f76e9ec2d > is a read-only test. >=20 > I forgot to mention in my first post that I'm using ULE. The p800 > controller has a (factory set) 25/75 read/write cache ratio.
There's maybe one additional thing: do you dual-boot Linux and FreeBSD? If so, you'll need to set up a separate additional partition for the database, instead of benchmarking it with the file systems used by the OS, because different areas of the drive(s) have different performance - you can verify this with diskinfo -t.
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