Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 08:28:03PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> +1, I was about to suggest the same thing. Running any of these tests >> for a fixed number of iterations will result in drastic degradation of >> accuracy as soon as the machine's behavior changes noticeably from what >> you were expecting. Run them for a fixed time period instead. Or maybe >> do a few, then check elapsed time and estimate a number of iterations to >> use, if you're worried about the cost of doing gettimeofday after each >> write.
> Good idea, and it worked out very well. I changed the -o loops > parameter to -s seconds which calls alarm() after (default) 2 seconds, > and then once the operation completes, computes a duration per > operation. I was kind of wondering how portable alarm() is, and the answer according to the buildfarm is that it isn't. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers