Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-26 Thread Paul Pathiakis
> > What makes PostgreSQL more interesting? Because you use it perhaps? > I would hesitate a guess that Mysql is a very common workload > under FreeBSD likely more so than PostgreSQL and as such that > would be a very good reason for it to have particular interest > and hence focus as a good start

Re: HEADS UP: UNIX domain socket locking changes merged to CVS HEAD

2007-02-26 Thread Paul Pathiakis
Thank you, Robert. P. On Monday 26 February 2007 15:52, Robert Watson wrote: > Dear all, > > After on-and-off development since 2005, I've now merged the UNIX domain > socket locking patch. Special thanks to Kris Kennaway who has been > providing stability testing, performance testing, and gener

HEADS UP: UNIX domain socket locking changes merged to CVS HEAD

2007-02-26 Thread Robert Watson
Dear all, After on-and-off development since 2005, I've now merged the UNIX domain socket locking patch. Special thanks to Kris Kennaway who has been providing stability testing, performance testing, and general support and feedback for this project since inception. Please let me know if y

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-26 Thread Steven Hartland
Andrew Hammond wrote: Performance is a pretty weak reason to upgrade, unless of course you have a performance problem. The one thing that will really push me to upgrade is bug fixes to stuff that I use where the risk of exposure to the bug outweighs the risk and cost of upgrade. This may be the

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:36:44AM -0800, Andrew Hammond wrote: > Would you guys mind > graphing the relative performance of PostgreSQL on 6.2-RELEASE and > your patched version please? postgresql currently performs worse than mysql on SMP freeBSD systems for the reason I posted yesterday (thunde

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Andrew Hammond wrote: > Performance is a pretty weak reason to upgrade, unless of course you > have a performance problem. > P.S. I know this is kinda trollish, but I don't understand the > interest in MySQL as a load, I agree in general, but MySQL performance is very exposed as an advocacy is

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-26 Thread Andrew Hammond
On 2/25/07, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: How does that compare to 6.2-RELEASE performance? >>> Much better. Fixing filedesc locking was key. >>> >>> >> If there is extra cycles on the same hardware, a performance comparison >> graph would be great. > > Se