Hi,
PFC wrote:
You have a huge amount of iowait !
Yup.
Did you put the xlog on a separate disk ?
No, it's all one big RAID6 for the sake of simplicity (plus I doubt
somewhat, that 2 disks for WAL + 5 for data + 1 spare would be much
faster than 7 disks for WAL and data + 1 spare - considering that RAID6
needs two parity disks, that's 3 vs 5 disks for data...)
What filesystem do you use ?
XFS
Did you check that your BBU cache works ?
Thanks to you're hint, yes. I've attached the small python script, in
case it might help someone else, too.
For that run a dumb script which does INSERTS in a test table in
autocommit mode ; if you get (7200rpm / 60) = 120 inserts / sec or less,
the good news is that your drives don't lie about fsync, the bad news is
that your BBU cache isn't working...
According to my little script, I constantly get somewhat around 6000
inserts per second, so I guess either my BBU works, or the drives are
lying ;-) Simplistic troughput testing with dd gives > 200MB/s, which
also seems fine.
Obviously there's something else I'm doing wrong. I didn't really care
much about postgresql.conf, except setting a larger shared_buffers and a
reasonable effective_cache_size.
Oh, something else that's probably worth thinking about (and just came
to my mind again): the XFS is on a lvm2, on that RAID6.
Regards
Markus
Simplistic throughput testing with dd:
dd of=test if=/dev/zero bs=10K count=800000
800000+0 records in
800000+0 records out
8192000000 bytes (8.2 GB) copied, 37.3552 seconds, 219 MB/s
pamonth:/opt/dbt2/bb# dd if=test of=/dev/zero bs=10K count=800000
800000+0 records in
800000+0 records out
8192000000 bytes (8.2 GB) copied, 27.6856 seconds, 296 MB/s
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys, time
import psycopg
count = 500000
db = psycopg.connect("user=postgres dbname=test")
db.autocommit(True)
dbc = db.cursor()
dbc.execute("CREATE TABLE test (data TEXT);")
sys.stdout.flush()
start_t = time.time()
for i in range(count):
dbc.execute("INSERT INTO test VALUES('insert no. %d');" % i)
diff_t = time.time() - start_t
print "%d inserts in %0.3f seconds, %f inserts/sec" % (count, diff_t, count / diff_t)
dbc.execute("DROP TABLE test;")
Version 1.03 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP
pamonth 8G 48173 99 214016 33 93972 20 49244 92 266763 32 615.3 0
------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
-Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
16 20510 82 +++++ +++ 25655 98 23954 99 +++++ +++ 25441 99
pamonth,8G,48173,99,214016,33,93972,20,49244,92,266763,32,615.3,0,16,20510,82,+++++,+++,25655,98,23954,99,+++++,+++,25441,99
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