Re: [HACKERS] XLOG_BLCKSZ vs. wal_buffers table

2006-06-05 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 16:46 -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:55 -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > >> Simon Riggs wrote: > >>> Could you turn full_page_writes = off and do a few more tests? I think > >>> the full page writes is swamping the xlog and masking the perfo

Re: [HACKERS] XLOG_BLCKSZ vs. wal_buffers table

2006-05-11 Thread Mark Wong
Simon Riggs wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:55 -0700, Mark Wong wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: Could you turn full_page_writes = off and do a few more tests? I think the full page writes is swamping the xlog and masking the performance we might see for normal small xlog writes. I'd try XLOG_BLCKSZ =

Re: [HACKERS] XLOG_BLCKSZ vs. wal_buffers table

2006-05-11 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:55 -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > > Could you turn full_page_writes = off and do a few more tests? I think > > the full page writes is swamping the xlog and masking the performance we > > might see for normal small xlog writes. > > I'd try XLOG_BLCKSZ = 4096

Re: [HACKERS] XLOG_BLCKSZ vs. wal_buffers table

2006-05-10 Thread Mark Wong
Simon Riggs wrote: > Could you turn full_page_writes = off and do a few more tests? I think > the full page writes is swamping the xlog and masking the performance we > might see for normal small xlog writes. > I'd try XLOG_BLCKSZ = 4096 and 8192 to start with. Thanks. Ok, got data for XLOG_BLCKXZ

Re: [HACKERS] XLOG_BLCKSZ vs. wal_buffers table

2006-05-08 Thread Mark Wong
On Mon, 08 May 2006 19:08:59 +0100 Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 16:00 -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > > On Tue, 02 May 2006 10:52:38 +0100 > > Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 22:14 -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > > > > I would have gott

Re: [HACKERS] XLOG_BLCKSZ vs. wal_buffers table

2006-05-08 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 16:00 -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > On Tue, 02 May 2006 10:52:38 +0100 > Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 22:14 -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > > > I would have gotten this out sooner but I'm having trouble with our > > > infrastructure. Here's a link

Re: [HACKERS] XLOG_BLCKSZ vs. wal_buffers table

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Wong
On Tue, 02 May 2006 10:52:38 +0100 Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 22:14 -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > > I would have gotten this out sooner but I'm having trouble with our > > infrastructure. Here's a link to a table of data I've started putting > > together regarding

Re: [HACKERS] XLOG_BLCKSZ vs. wal_buffers table

2006-05-03 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD
> > > I'm planning on continuing to increase XLOG_BLCKSZ and wal_buffers to > > > determine when the throughput starts to level out or drop > > > > I think for an even better comparison you should scale wal_buffers > > down with increasing XLOG_BLCKSZ, so that the xlog buffer has a fixed > > siz

Re: [HACKERS] XLOG_BLCKSZ vs. wal_buffers table

2006-05-02 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 05:00:58PM +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD wrote: > > > I'm planning on continuing to increase XLOG_BLCKSZ and wal_buffers to > > determine when the throughput starts to level out or drop > > I think for an even better comparison you should scale wal_buffers > down with

Re: [HACKERS] XLOG_BLCKSZ vs. wal_buffers table

2006-05-02 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD
> I'm planning on continuing to increase XLOG_BLCKSZ and wal_buffers to > determine when the throughput starts to level out or drop I think for an even better comparison you should scale wal_buffers down with increasing XLOG_BLCKSZ, so that the xlog buffer has a fixed size in kb. Reasonable wal

Re: [HACKERS] XLOG_BLCKSZ vs. wal_buffers table

2006-05-02 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 22:14 -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > I would have gotten this out sooner but I'm having trouble with our > infrastructure. Here's a link to a table of data I've started putting > together regarding XLOG_BLCKSZ and wal_buffers on a 4-way Opteron > system: > http://developer.o

[HACKERS] XLOG_BLCKSZ vs. wal_buffers table

2006-04-30 Thread Mark Wong
I would have gotten this out sooner but I'm having trouble with our infrastructure. Here's a link to a table of data I've started putting together regarding XLOG_BLCKSZ and wal_buffers on a 4-way Opteron system: http://developer.osdl.org/markw/pgsql/xlog_blcksz.html There are a couple of