"Bort, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andrew said I should solicit opinions as to what parameters to use. A > cursory search through the archives led me to pick a scaling factor of > 10, 5 users, and 100 transactions.
100 transactions seems barely enough to get through startup transients. Maybe 1000 would be good. I think the hard part of this is the reporting process. How do we track how performance varies over time? It doesn't seem very useful to compare different buildfarm members, but a longitudinal display of performance on a single buildfarm machine over time would be cool. (I'm still missing Mark Wong's daily OSDL performance reports :-() Actually the $64 question here is whether we trust pgbench as the standard performance test ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq