Re: [HACKERS] Trivial HugeTLB Benchmark

2007-03-07 Thread Jim Nasby
On Mar 4, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Ryan Cumming wrote: I did another 18 runs, 9 each for huge pages and normal shared memory. The database was reinitialized before every third run with pgbench -i -s 10. The runs themselves were done with pgbench -s 10 -c 5 -t 1 Rather than doing that, I think

Re: [HACKERS] Trivial HugeTLB Benchmark

2007-03-06 Thread Ryan Cumming
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 10:14 -0800, Tom Lane wrote: If you did this only once, the results are not really trustworthy; you need to average several similar runs before you can have much confidence. pgbench's inter-run variation is usually upwards of 10%, so trying to draw conclusions about

Re: [HACKERS] Trivial HugeTLB Benchmark

2007-03-04 Thread Tom Lane
Ryan Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I ran each pgbench after a fresh reboot. I used 85 huge pages reserved at boot for the huge page test, and none for the normal shared memory test. Normal shared memory: -bash-3.00$ pgbench -c 5 -t 1 starting vacuum...end. transaction type: TPC-B