Re: [PERFORM] sniff test on some PG 8.4 numbers

2013-03-10 Thread Greg Smith
On 3/10/13 9:18 PM, Jon Nelson wrote: The following is with ext4, nobarrier, and noatime. As noted in the original post, I have done a fair bit of system tuning. I have the dirty_bytes and dirty_background_bytes set to 3GB and 2GB, respectively. That's good, but be aware those values are still

Re: [PERFORM] sniff test on some PG 8.4 numbers

2013-03-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Jon Nelson wrote: > It seems as though you say the write numbers are not believable, > suggesting a value of 7,500 (roughly 1/4 what I'm getting). If I run > the read test for 30 seconds I get - highly variable - between 300K > and 400K tps. Why are these tps so hi

Re: [PERFORM] sniff test on some PG 8.4 numbers

2013-03-10 Thread Jon Nelson
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Greg Smith wrote: > On 3/5/13 10:00 PM, Jon Nelson wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Jon Nelson >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> pgbench -h BLAH -c 32 -M prepared -t 10 -S >>> I get 95,000 to 100,000 tps. >>> >>> pgbench -h BLAH -c 32 -M prepared -t 10 >>

Re: [PERFORM] New server setup

2013-03-10 Thread Greg Smith
On 3/1/13 6:43 AM, Niels Kristian Schjødt wrote: Hi, I'm going to setup a new server for my postgresql database, and I am considering one of these: http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/poweredge-r720 with four SAS drives in a RAID 10 array. Has any of you any particular comments/p

Re: [PERFORM] sniff test on some PG 8.4 numbers

2013-03-10 Thread Greg Smith
On 3/5/13 10:00 PM, Jon Nelson wrote: On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Jon Nelson wrote: pgbench -h BLAH -c 32 -M prepared -t 10 -S I get 95,000 to 100,000 tps. pgbench -h BLAH -c 32 -M prepared -t 10 seems to hover around 6,200 tps (size 100) to 13,700 (size 400) Some followup: The