Re: [HACKERS] Performance Farm Release

2011-03-27 Thread Greg Smith
I just dusted off this code and brought it back to current again. Basically a lot of reformatting the new performance farm parts to minimize their diff. Once that was done, all of the other buildfarm client updates since then applied cleanly. The result is now sitting as a fork of Andrew's

Re: [HACKERS] Performance Farm Release

2011-03-27 Thread Robert Haas
On Mar 27, 2011, at 3:20 PM, Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: I just dusted off this code and brought it back to current again. Basically a lot of reformatting the new performance farm parts to minimize their diff. Once that was done, all of the other buildfarm client updates since

Re: [HACKERS] Performance Farm Release

2010-08-31 Thread Greg Smith
Stephen Frost wrote: You can certainly run it yourself locally w/o setting it up to report back to the build or performance farm.. So, yes, you can, you'll just have to look through the outputs yourself and it won't necessairly make much sense unless you've been doing those runs for a period of

Re: [HACKERS] Performance Farm Release

2010-08-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 03:28 -0400, Greg Smith wrote: 4) Merge the perfarm fork changes into the mainline buildfarm code. I expect continued bitrot of this code as changes are made to the regular buildfarm client, so it might be worth considering that sooner rather than later. As Andrew

Re: [HACKERS] Performance Farm Release

2010-08-31 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 08/31/2010 03:28 AM, Greg Smith wrote: 1) Nail down what subset of the information gathered locally should be uploaded to the buildfarm master server. Probably just the same columns of data already being saved for each test, but perhaps with some extra metadata. The local animal will

Re: [HACKERS] Performance Farm Release

2010-08-27 Thread Greg Smith
Kevin Grittner wrote: I actually understood that part, but was already wondering if it could be bent to slightly different purposes. It seems as though there would be value to using it to evaluate the performance impact of a proposed patch, at least on a limited basis, *before* a commit

Re: [HACKERS] Performance Farm Release

2010-08-26 Thread Luxenberg, Scott I.
To: Luxenberg, Scott I. Cc: PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Performance Farm Release (resending as I also accidentally CC'd pgsql-hackers-owner, not the list) On 25/08/10 02:25, Luxenberg, Scott I. wrote: This is just my email to notify you all that the project I've been working

Re: [HACKERS] Performance Farm Release

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin Grittner
[resending after noticing that reply all resulted in sending to pgsql-hackers-owner rather than pgsql-hackers] Luxenberg, Scott I. scott.luxenb...@noblis.org wrote: This is just my email to notify you all that the project I've been working on with Stephen, the PostgreSQL Performance Farm,

Re: [HACKERS] Performance Farm Release

2010-08-25 Thread Stephen Frost
Kevin, * Kevin Grittner (kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov) wrote: Would this project be useful for someone trying to assess the performance impact of a proposed patch (at least on the developer's machine)? What would someone do to use it in this way? The goal is to have this running in a similar

Re: [HACKERS] Performance Farm Release

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin Grittner
Stephen Frost sfr...@snowman.net wrote: The goal is to have this running in a similar manner as the build farm to identify when a patch has an impact on performance (good or bad). Hackers would then be able to view performance farm reports similar to viewing build farm reports. Not sure if

Re: [HACKERS] Performance Farm Release

2010-08-25 Thread Stephen Frost
* Kevin Grittner (kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov) wrote: I actually understood that part, but was already wondering if it could be bent to slightly different purposes. It seems as though there would be value to using it to evaluate the performance impact of a proposed patch, at least on a

Re: [HACKERS] Performance Farm Release

2010-08-25 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
(resending as I also accidentally CC'd pgsql-hackers-owner, not the list) On 25/08/10 02:25, Luxenberg, Scott I. wrote: This is just my email to notify you all that the project I've been working on with Stephen, the PostgreSQL Performance Farm, has been released. As of now, it only supports

[HACKERS] Performance Farm Release

2010-08-24 Thread Luxenberg, Scott I.
Hey all, This is just my email to notify you all that the project I've been working on with Stephen, the PostgreSQL Performance Farm, has been released. As of now, it only supports 9.0, due to the use of workers. More details can be found in the readme. The Git repository is located here: