Re: FreeBSD 10 and PostgreSQL 9.3 scalability issues

2014-05-21 Thread Palle Girgensohn
21 maj 2014 kl. 22:05 skrev Sean Chittenden : I did some tests with zfs, and results where appallingly bad, but that was with db size > ram. > > I think the model used by PostgreSQL, as most databases, are very disk > block centric. Using zfs makes it hard to get good p

Re: FreeBSD 10 and PostgreSQL 9.3 scalability issues

2014-05-21 Thread Sean Chittenden
>>> I did some tests with zfs, and results where appallingly bad, but that was >>> with db size > ram. I think the model used by PostgreSQL, as most databases, are very disk block centric. Using zfs makes it hard to get good performance. But this was some time ago, maybe th

Re: FreeBSD 10 and PostgreSQL 9.3 scalability issues

2014-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/05/2014 18:17, Sean Chittenden wrote: >> I did some tests with zfs, and results where appallingly bad, but that was >> with db size > ram. >> > >> > I think the model used by PostgreSQL, as most databases, are very disk >> > block centric. Using zfs makes it hard to get good performance.

Re: FreeBSD 10 and PostgreSQL 9.3 scalability issues

2014-05-21 Thread Sean Chittenden
> I did some tests with zfs, and results where appallingly bad, but that was > with db size > ram. > > I think the model used by PostgreSQL, as most databases, are very disk block > centric. Using zfs makes it hard to get good performance. But this was some > time ago, maybe things have improv

Re: FreeBSD 10 and PostgreSQL 9.3 scalability issues

2014-05-21 Thread Palle Girgensohn
I did some tests with zfs, and results where appallingly bad, but that was with db size > ram. I think the model used by PostgreSQL, as most databases, are very disk block centric. Using zfs makes it hard to get good performance. But this was some time ago, maybe things have improved. Palle

Re: FreeBSD 10 and PostgreSQL 9.3 scalability issues

2014-05-21 Thread Gezeala M . Bacuño II
Gotcha. I've been testing using pgbench on FreeBSD 9.0 release + ZFS + pg 9.3.. I can reach the freebsd 10 stats on the pdf files if the dataset RAM. Test was done on pools without L2ARC and with/without compression. I also remember increasing a vm.pmap sysctl. I'm out of the office right now sick