On 05/08/2015 03:02 PM, Fabien COELHO wrote:

Remove pgbench constraint that the number of clients must be a multiple of
the number of threads, by sharing clients among threads as evenly as
possible.

Rational: allows to test the database load with any number of client
without unrelated constraint. The current setting means for instance that
testing with a prime number of clients always uses one thread, whereas
other number of clients can use a different number of threads. This
constraint does not make much sense.
..
Minor v2 update to change a not badly chosen variable name.

+1, it's really annoying that you can't just do -j<high number> and always run with that.

This doesn't behave correctly if you set -j to greater than -c, and also use the rate limit option:

---- This works ----
$ ./pgbench -R 100 -j3 -c 3 -T 10 postgres
starting vacuum...end.
transaction type: TPC-B (sort of)
scaling factor: 5
query mode: simple
number of clients: 3
number of threads: 3
duration: 10 s
number of transactions actually processed: 1031
latency average: 1.397 ms
latency stddev: 0.276 ms
rate limit schedule lag: avg 0.119 (max 1.949) ms
tps = 102.947257 (including connections establishing)
tps = 102.967251 (excluding connections establishing)


---- This does not; too small TPS ----
$ ./pgbench -R 100 -j100 -c 3 -T 10 postgres
starting vacuum...end.
transaction type: TPC-B (sort of)
scaling factor: 5
query mode: simple
number of clients: 3
number of threads: 100
duration: 10 s
number of transactions actually processed: 40
latency average: 3.573 ms
latency stddev: 1.724 ms
rate limit schedule lag: avg 0.813 (max 4.722) ms
tps = 3.246618 (including connections establishing)
tps = 3.246639 (excluding connections establishing)

I think that can be fixed by just setting nthreads internally to nclients, if nthreads > nclients. But please double-check that the logic used to calculate throttle_delay makes sense in general, when nthreads is not a multiple of nclients.

- Heikki



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