Peter Eisentraut writes:
> On 10/7/17 16:46, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Accordingly I propose the attached patch. If anyone's interested in
>> experimenting on other platforms, we might be able to refine/complicate
>> the FLUSH_DISTANCE selection further, but I think this is probably good
>> enough for a
On November 8, 2017 7:31:17 AM PST, Peter Eisentraut
wrote:
>On 10/7/17 16:46, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I wrote:
>>> Current status is that I've filed a bug report with Apple and am
>waiting
>>> to see their response before deciding what to do next. If they fix
>the
>>> issue promptly then there's l
On 10/7/17 16:46, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Current status is that I've filed a bug report with Apple and am waiting
>> to see their response before deciding what to do next. If they fix the
>> issue promptly then there's little need for us to do anything.
> Accordingly I propose the attached
I wrote:
> Current status is that I've filed a bug report with Apple and am waiting
> to see their response before deciding what to do next. If they fix the
> issue promptly then there's little need for us to do anything.
Not having heard a peep from Apple yet, I decided to do a bit more
experime
Brent Dearth writes:
> Is there an issue tracker I could be looking at to follow along on the
> progress on this issue?
This email thread is pretty much it ...
Current status is that I've filed a bug report with Apple and am waiting
to see their response before deciding what to do next. If they
Tom, Andres -
Is there an issue tracker I could be looking at to follow along on the
progress on this issue?
Thanks so much!
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 9:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund writes:
> > On 2017-10-02 19:50:51 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> What I saw was that the backend process w
Andres Freund writes:
> On 2017-10-02 19:50:51 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> What I saw was that the backend process was consuming 100% of (one) CPU,
>> while the I/O transaction rate viewed by "iostat 1" started pretty low
>> --- under 10% of what the machine is capable of --- and dropped from
>> the
On 2017-10-02 19:50:51 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund writes:
> > On 2017-10-02 18:33:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I'm kind of surprised that machine B doesn't show obvious tanking in this
> >> test given that msync() makes it suck so badly at copying a database.
> >> I wonder what is di
Andres Freund writes:
> On 2017-10-02 18:33:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm kind of surprised that machine B doesn't show obvious tanking in this
>> test given that msync() makes it suck so badly at copying a database.
>> I wonder what is different from the kernel's standpoint ... maybe the
>> sh
Hi,
On 2017-10-02 18:33:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund writes:
> > To demonstrate what I'm observing here, on linux with a fairly fast ssd:
> > ...
>
> I tried to replicate this test as closely as I could on the Mac hardware
> I have laying about.
Thanks!
> I only bothered with the
Andres Freund writes:
> To demonstrate what I'm observing here, on linux with a fairly fast ssd:
> ...
I tried to replicate this test as closely as I could on the Mac hardware
I have laying about. I only bothered with the synchronous_commit=off
case, though, since you say that shows the worst ef
On 2017-10-02 15:59:05 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund writes:
> > On 2017-10-02 15:54:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Should I expect there to be any difference at all? We don't enable
> >> *_flush_after by default on non-Linux platforms.
>
> > Right, you'd have to enable that. But your p
Andres Freund writes:
> On 2017-10-02 15:54:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Should I expect there to be any difference at all? We don't enable
>> *_flush_after by default on non-Linux platforms.
> Right, you'd have to enable that. But your patch would neuter an
> intentionally enabled config too, n
On 2017-10-02 15:54:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund writes:
> > On 2017-10-02 15:42:25 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I experimented with this further by seeing whether the msync() code path
> >> is of any value on Sierra either. The answer seems to be "no": cloning
> >> a scale-1000 pgben
Andres Freund writes:
> On 2017-10-02 15:42:25 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I experimented with this further by seeing whether the msync() code path
>> is of any value on Sierra either. The answer seems to be "no": cloning
>> a scale-1000 pgbench database takes about 17-18 seconds on my Sierra
>> la
On 2017-10-02 15:42:25 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > In short, therefore, APFS cannot cope with the way we're using msync().
>
> I experimented with this further by seeing whether the msync() code path
> is of any value on Sierra either. The answer seems to be "no": cloning
> a scale-1000
Thanks for this breakdown Tom!
FWIW - I'm on Postgres 9.6.5 as bundled with Postgres.app (2.0.5) running
on 2013 MBP (2.7GHz i7 / 16GB / SSD) setup. It looks like this might be a
priority for an upcoming release, so I might try to hold out for
downstream, but thanks for the patch. It will help if
I wrote:
> In short, therefore, APFS cannot cope with the way we're using msync().
I experimented with this further by seeing whether the msync() code path
is of any value on Sierra either. The answer seems to be "no": cloning
a scale-1000 pgbench database takes about 17-18 seconds on my Sierra
l
Brent Dearth writes:
> I just recently "upgraded" to High Sierra and experiencing horrendous CREATE
> DATABASE performance. Creating a database from a 3G template DB used to
> take ~1m but post-upgrade is taking ~22m at a sustained write of around
> 4MB/s. Occasionally, attempting to create an emp
I just recently "upgraded" to High Sierra and experiencing horrendous CREATE
DATABASE performance. Creating a database from a 3G template DB used to
take ~1m but post-upgrade is taking ~22m at a sustained write of around
4MB/s. Occasionally, attempting to create an empty database hangs
indefinitely
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