Re: [PERFORM] write barrier question

2010-08-28 Thread Cédric Villemain
2010/8/19 Samuel Gendler : > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Yeb Havinga wrote: >> Samuel Gendler wrote: >>> >>> When running pgbench on a db which fits easily into RAM (10% of RAM = >>> -s 380), I see transaction counts a little less than 5K.  When I go to >>> 90% of RAM (-s 3420), transaction r

Re: [PERFORM] write barrier question

2010-08-18 Thread Samuel Gendler
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Yeb Havinga wrote: > Samuel Gendler wrote: >> >> When running pgbench on a db which fits easily into RAM (10% of RAM = >> -s 380), I see transaction counts a little less than 5K.  When I go to >> 90% of RAM (-s 3420), transaction rate dropped to around 1000 ( at a

Re: [PERFORM] write barrier question

2010-08-18 Thread Samuel Gendler
I am. I was giving mean numbers On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Craig James wrote: > On 8/18/10 12:24 PM, Samuel Gendler wrote: >> >> With barriers off, I saw a transaction rate of about 1200.  With >> barriers on, it was closer to 1050.  The test had a concurrency of 40 >> in both cases. > >

Re: [PERFORM] write barrier question

2010-08-18 Thread Yeb Havinga
Samuel Gendler wrote: When running pgbench on a db which fits easily into RAM (10% of RAM = -s 380), I see transaction counts a little less than 5K. When I go to 90% of RAM (-s 3420), transaction rate dropped to around 1000 ( at a fairly wide range of concurrencies). At that point, I decided to

Re: [PERFORM] write barrier question

2010-08-18 Thread Craig James
On 8/18/10 12:24 PM, Samuel Gendler wrote: With barriers off, I saw a transaction rate of about 1200. With barriers on, it was closer to 1050. The test had a concurrency of 40 in both cases. I discovered there is roughly 10-20% "noise" in pgbench results after running the exact same test ove

[PERFORM] write barrier question

2010-08-18 Thread Samuel Gendler
I'm just starting the process of trying to tune new hardware, which is 2x quad core xeon, 48GB RAM, 8x300GB SAS 15K drives in RAID 1+0, 2x72GB 15K SAS drives in RAID 1 for WAL and system. It is a PERC 6/i card with BBU. Write-back cache is enabled. The system volume is ext3. The large data partit