On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:00:37PM +0000, B. Estrade wrote: > >I've mentioned this a couple of times, but postgresql didn't scale > >well [on freebsd at least] when I tried it last year. I hope to > >revisit when I get time. > > What other applications have you used to test the scalability? Have > you looked into utilizing OpenMP (available via intel compilers, which > are free for private use) ? > > http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/compilers/flin/282048.htm > > I am not sure of the state of GCC's OpenMP implementation > (http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/gomp/), but that might be more palatable > to some. > > It seems that there either exist OpenMP benchmarks for shared memory > systems or ones could be easily be created for fully exercising (or > maybe exorcising;) the system. One thing is for sure, there are a lot > of scientific applications out there written using OpenMP that might > serve this purpose as well.
No, I've not looked at this. I don't have any experience with this system, but it might be a good project for someone to look into. Kris _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-smp To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
