--- On Mon, 11/4/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Linux: more cores = less concurrency.
> To: "Steve Clark" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Scott Marlowe" <[email protected]>, "Joshua D. Drake" 
> <[email protected]>, "Kevin Grittner" <[email protected]>, 
> [email protected], "Glyn Astill" <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, 11 April, 2011, 21:04
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Steve Clark
> wrote:
> 
> the limit isn't 8 cores, it's that the hyperthreaded cores
> don't work well with the postgres access patterns.
> 

This has nothing to do with hyperthreading. I have a hyperthreaded benchmark 
purely for completion, but can we please forget about it.

The issue I'm seeing is that 8 real cores outperform 16 real cores, which 
outperform 32 real cores under high concurrency.

32 cores is much faster than 8 when I have relatively few clients, but as the 
number of clients is scaled up 8 cores wins outright.

I was hoping someone had seen this sort of behaviour before, and could offer 
some sort of explanation or advice.

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