On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 07:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > (In fact, they seem to think they are testing kernel performance, not > > database performance, which strikes me as rather bizarre. But anyway.) > > That may be a terminology thing; the main SAP-DB process is called the > "kernel," and it's more than likely that the "SAP-DB Kernel" is the sense in > which the term is being used.
Actually, I believe the reason the benchmark was developed was to provide a workload for optimizing high-end Linux kernel performance (with the inference being that SAP-DB is pretty close to Oracle, Oracle performance is important for enterprise deployment of Linux, and therefore optimizing the kernel's handling of SAP-DB running TPC benchmarks will tend to improve the kernel's performance running Oracle/DB2/etc.) So when they mean "kernel", I think they really mean "kernel". That's not to say that the benchmark wouldn't be useful for doing other stuff, like pure database benchmarks (as long as its a valid implementation of TPC-C (or TPC-H, etc.), it should be fine...) A research group at the university I attend (www.queensu.ca) expressed some interested in a TPC-C implementation for PostgreSQL, so I was planning to port the OSDL TPC-C implementation to PostgreSQL. Unfortunately, I got sidetracked for a couple reasons: (1) lack of time (2) increasing awareness of just how boring writing benchmark apps is :-) (3) distaste for ODBC. While I'd like to get some time to do the port in the future, that shouldn't stop anyone else from doing so in the mean time :-) Cheers, Neil -- Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || PGP Key ID: DB3C29FC ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
