Hi All,

As I'll soon be looking at migrating some of our debian servers onto the new 
stable release, I've started doing a bit of basic pgbench testing.

Initially I've seen a little performance regression with higher concurrent 
clients when going from the 2.6.32 kernel to 3.2.14 (select only and tpc-b).  
After trying the suggestions made by Shaun Thomas a while back (here: 
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/50e4aab1.9040...@optionshouse.com) and 
getting nowhere, I'm seeing big improvements instead increasing the 

defaults for sched_min_granularity_ns and sched_wakeup_granularity_ns (As 
described here: 
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt) from 
debians defaults of 3000000 and 4000000 respectively.


On my initial test setup (which admittedly is far from cutting edge) of 2xE5320 
/ 32Gb the following seem pretty optimal:

kernel.sched_min_granularity_ns=9000000
kernel.sched_wakeup_granularity_ns=12000000

I've yet to do any testing on our larger machines, but as there have been a few 
posts here about performance vs newer kernels I was just wondering what other 
peoples findings are regarding CFS?

Glyn

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