On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Friday, June 29, 2012 07:07:11 PM Nils Goroll wrote:
>> > Also, 20 transactions per connection is not enough of a run to make
>> > any evaluation on.
>>
>> As you can see I've repeated the tests 10 times. I've tested slight
>> variations as mentioned above, so I was looking for quick results with
>> acceptable variation.
> Running only 20 transactions is still meaningless. Quite often that will means
> that no backends run concurrently because the starting up takes longer than to
> process those 20 transactions. You need at the very, very least 10s. Check out
> -T.

yeah. also, standard pgbench is typically very much i/o bound on
typical hardware.  it's would be much more interesting to see
performance in spinlock heavy workloads -- the OP noted one when
introducing the thread. would it be possible to simulate those
conditions.

merlin

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