Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-19 Thread Kevin Way
up in the iLO management log, and in a "camcontrol inquiry". Kevin Way ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Anyone interested in improving postgresql scaling?

2007-04-17 Thread Kevin Way
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 02:51:55PM -0400, Kevin Way wrote: I built 7.0 as of 6 days ago, and ran the same test using 8-cores, ULE and 4BSD. The results are available at: http://blog.insidesystems.net/articles/2007/04/11/postgresql-scaling-on-6-2-and-7-0

Re: Anyone interested in improving postgresql scaling?

2007-04-17 Thread Kevin Way
Robert Watson wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Kevin Way wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: If so, then your task is the following: Make SYSV semaphores less dumb about process wakeups. Currently whenever the semaphore state changes, all processes sleeping on the semaphore are woken, even if we only

Re: Anyone interested in improving postgresql scaling?

2007-04-09 Thread Kevin Way
of the 2-core system as the # of threads hits 5. All other (non-pgsql, non-sysv) tests came back approximately as expected, but I'm left wondering if I did something wrong, or if 8 cpus are slower than 2, when it comes to Postgres on currently available FreeBSD. Kevin Way Inside Systems