Re: [PERFORM] pgbench Comparison of 7.4.7 to 8.0.2

[Steve Poe]

>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.

Tom,
When you see these oscillations, do they occur after so many generated 
results? Some oscillation is normal, in my opinion, from 10-15% of the 
performance is noise-related.

The key is to tune the server that you either 1) minimize the 
oscillation and/or 2)increase your overall performance above the 10-15% 
baseline, and 3) find out what the mean and standard deviation between 
all your results.

If your results are within that range, this maybe "normal". I follow-up 
with you later on what I do.

Steve Poe

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