A couple of notes:
* There was some interesting oscillation behavior in both version of postgres that occurred with 25 clients and 1000 transactions at a scaling factor of 100. This was repeatable with the distribution version of pgbench run iteratively from the command line. I'm not sure how to explain this.
* I'm not really sure why the single client run at 1000 transactions seemed so much slower than all successive iterations, including single client with 10000 transactions at a scaling factor of 100. It's possible that I should be concerned about how throughput was so much higher for 10000 transactions.
Anyway, the code changes, the configuration details, and the results are all posted here:
http://www.sitening.com/pgbench.html
Once again, I'd be curious to get feedback from developers and the community about the results, and I'm happy to answer any questions.
-tfo
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On Apr 15, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
"Thomas F.O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:http://www.sitening.com/pgbench.html
You need to run *many* more transactions than that to get pgbench
numbers that aren't mostly noise. In my experience 1000 transactions
per client is a rock-bottom minimum to get repeatable numbers; 10000 per
is better.
Also, in any run where #clients >= scaling factor, what you're measuring
is primarily contention to update the "branches" rows. Which is not
necessarily a bad thing to check, but it's generally not the most
interesting performance domain (if your app is like that you need to
redesign the app...)
To me, it looks like basic transactional performance is modestly improved at 8.0 across a variety of metrics.
That's what I would expect --- we usually do some performance work in every release cycle, but there was not a huge amount of it for 8.0.
However, these numbers don't prove much either way.
regards, tom lane
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