- the computer is P3 @ 933MHz, 1Gb RAM
- I'm running pgbench with 35 clients and 50 transactions/client
- benchmark results are differentiating by about +/- 6 TPS. The results are between 32 TPS and 44 TPS
- the results seem to be getting worse over time then suddenly jumping to the maximum (saw-tooth like). Sometime there is even (very noticable as a pattern!) indication of more-or-less regular alteration between the minimum and maximum values (e.g. first measurement yields 32, second yields 44, third again 32 or 31, etc...)
- running vacuumdb -z -f on the database does not influence the results in predictable ways
- waiting (sleeping) between pgbench runs (either regular or random) does not influence it in predictable ways
- the same patterns appear between operating systems (FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2) and reinstalls of it (the numbers are ofcourse somewhat different)
postgresql.conf contains only these active lines: max_connections = 40 shared_buffers = 10000 sort_mem = 8192 vacuum_mem = 32768
I've used these settings as they are expected to be used on a regular work load when the server goes into production. I've upped vacuum_mem as it seems to shorten vacuum times dramaticaly (I assume the memory is allocated when needed as the postgresql process is only 88MB in size (80Mb shared buffers)).
What I'm really asking here is: are these results normal? If not, can they be improved, or is there a better off-the-shelf PostgreSQL benchmark tool?
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