Re: [HACKERS] Synchronized Scan benchmark results

2007-04-04 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 10:23 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: > > - a hash join > > This is where I got stuck. > > * If it's one big ( > NBuffers/2 ) table and one small table, the small > table will only serve to occupy some shared_buffers (right? > * If it's two big tables, a join would be a major opera

Re: [HACKERS] Synchronized Scan benchmark results

2007-04-04 Thread Jeff Davis
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 10:40 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > > That makes no sense to me, so it's probably a fluke (by which I mean > > some other activity on the system, perhaps swapping some large > > applications). The second two tests are consistent with all the other > > numbers I got, but the firs

Re: [HACKERS] Synchronized Scan benchmark results

2007-04-04 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:37 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: > > > The primary aspect of my patch, the Synchronized Scanning, performed > > > great though. Even the CFQ scheduler, that does not appear to properly > > > read ahead, performed substantially better than plain 8.2.3. And even > > > better, Simo

Re: [HACKERS] Synchronized Scan benchmark results

2007-04-03 Thread Jeff Davis
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:01 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 16:14 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: > > > The results are very positive and quite conclusive. > > Can we show some summary results? I should be able to make some graphs today. > I'm happy that the scans stay together all t

Re: [HACKERS] Synchronized Scan benchmark results

2007-04-03 Thread Jeff Davis
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 21:38 -0700, Luke Lonergan wrote: > Jeff, > > Your conclusions sound great - can you perhaps put the timings in a column > in your table so we can confirm them? > I just threw the logs up, which contain the timings involved. I will try to make graphs out of them, but the da

Re: [HACKERS] Synchronized Scan benchmark results

2007-04-03 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 16:14 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: > The results are very positive and quite conclusive. Can we show some summary results? I'm happy that the scans stay together all the way around, even handling the max-> 0 blockid transition well. So definite winner for me. > However, the "s

Re: [HACKERS] Synchronized Scan benchmark results

2007-04-02 Thread Luke Lonergan
Jeff, Your conclusions sound great - can you perhaps put the timings in a column in your table so we can confirm them? - Luke On 4/2/07 4:14 PM, "Jeff Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I posted some fairly detailed benchmark results for my Synchronized Scan > patch and it's interactions with

[HACKERS] Synchronized Scan benchmark results

2007-04-02 Thread Jeff Davis
I posted some fairly detailed benchmark results for my Synchronized Scan patch and it's interactions with Simon Riggs' Recycle Buffers patch here: http://j-davis.com/postgresql/patch15-results.html The results are in the form of log files that contain lots of useful debugging info: * log_executo