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Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:30:55 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Regarding postgreSQL performance on DRAM To: Rohan Kadekodi , Tom Lane References: <87va1exlfo.fsf@jsievers.enova.com> <29251.1550696663@sss.pgh.pa.us> Cc: Thomas Kellerer , pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org, gsievers19@comcast.net From: Peter Eisentraut Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= xsFNBFUUt6kBEADZd9NNTBJbHmAXXJgPGOdd6Q73l80oifIVgn2tRxP9dYkCfTlo/yLqbKTl JNqTcyM6XrJDnB2sMEUGYCewYZXl+9C4bBJWyNqcEI1ae9u71vEq/fknFLArJ+2wN+f7QuRx Q8d94ZJAiJQ5g3fNk2HVeedCQCKP5dCzU+ZLt2dbsx1PDZLjTO9gf+JswWuGFb5wY5PZVM5V hq66Xk7ZJzHuARacza2RT7J2fkMmQBY+kr7L98Perb0GhafnlhXB0PvUB+N3xpmggMfwuhTu BngS/G/r3GvemxJuFxouw8xsMqrsfdksJXA2gLXYtwRCssdPV3PO0rlD9twqDo8URfIJ5fb6 1g/MV8aTOKjg3Q8MpJPtkwJqN4o3PvbwYdedeFnOVkkYAJdu/aX1v1BeCBDu7Hy3sF52scD3 pQbyQSl9vUDpTLarASAxNbAV0NRJE8dp4vfW6AH1ccryGiFqw/czPK/iN0+MT8wsjAW6WW4w hvjm5UPA1KTwi3ZT8eT5uycuH7QpuNk7LnGGXQ6KaRALFywzkr0A0V0AvFNa+l4wstMaXaB6 dmMXyF0/hfryqyOeu1gAdq4q0/PNC2dPgb/6uoh4eMjN6A5GXcprilhz5DulmsilY21hfSoU S64ODed96pKhprsOxjZiDRsN1QM5MwB+uwVWUNfsX7fIxE0BrwARAQABzSdQZXRlciBFaXNl bnRyYXV0IDxwZXRlckBlaXNlbnRyYXV0Lm9yZz7CwXoEEwEIACQCGwMFCwkIBwMFFQoJCAsF FgIDAQACHgECF4AFAlUUuKQCGQEACgkQoZ8SQ+xBJp8llw//RbGoXnF72FZTlOFsnNyxnWbF vViPCfdAlZl1GGK9OYCvV1dp/956HuhB0wpaGQHiBmQfOPJf/jLOPjXFYm2iEChEycrBChuE j4TSYemMp5BSPILYk9Uwd16kVD/+U6fQfK6H5pOhfBvbM6asMnmpY2wQuvktxHvaGlytFw84 EzFWNZtAZfxkw28w3AhIQkKe9hJanfyDL750RcbyEr8AAHty5IErrvS7tM5vQwIeh5BF26ND CyKPRdZgOgMpcwFfROKBDpAt052CgWIpNdhBdfIKlkCs4/ILxmC3rT/Mb/qZiHcoMMwEu6k+ T7vRAFZZAk62Yrr/U8/vUGKlzRZQoo86fyojCfI0ibCIc0z8rwCVY9P40G9wD9BTCZS/z8Vh jjpBlNnIKw2hM6hbxavKndCJjFFJD08rXrTyrLF/of18xD37vNdYooP9VATB5QjOWFRrscSZ 4a89e+to3m7YVnd4xdXwGp47dYusoax84C8tg1gZrH38ol9dPmnKX6GZrXeS7tH9k8VeUpJ8 HQbRThQRWAT936QpYbLConBmOtmbLmjQOGtiXPo1oK57X/7U/WBja5vWmm2q+Yxtt+3uHGVg DdDU4CJpXo4lX0v2n3QV5EBSW9hjdF3bNfl6GFBb1pPEhqNcMDUc7zkx/2uENdAdk/BnqMgH umip7b0pVfvOwU0EVRS3qQEQAJf6p0P7D+hMYUgCPkvgrcz6OJYsAYdUMUmokfqmkKwK0oJM ew8TNGM53ocKAgQGma5f10rwbZNPlpVPNRX5hwUmwVlcwSut0oE+JfUBH7mpysWvpF05RKIy q9RCoJZrAbXS7Tig56A1QD8IcM00rERZMcCOlI1+q9m4u9AOI+0LyGGSH+VvoyDHD/Jew4R2 TmPEF8Pu7lYiNYK88Q6u0kBkc+Tz3BNlyc6fi3HxnFfp0b75HLXPSTu2SwA/0Q31wHZXwrEU BR9KgSn/qbgy8ydPc97i82fhiFE3cbGexfPrQSMYmDGi+dcQ0s+AMQwC3XyMC0JkHpYUuFkR QdlIvaIhgFUUN2Vr4xF2ADaNTNFc4DYaiPHFAgHZw+3pZWqS4uIiWgJynrEaHw4F3QWU8/JB iyEWDhNq4WBrRA0u914TCCAoFOOKMnRdl8eJrRQKM/5/lXbHFjjlI/LDKhLRFsuQsnJJ3331 RjCzpHPZG5/p5KR1RHiAXa0p/DW5lXyq21hS3kjDlleoHqOxCN/cy0Jgz7qLDq1vZoCl67Sy RAH60c2Xu4may9SVltmot0OzWVHdrfS+85FQGp9580DaeLio7YMFKy2bfEvwQJ/c9xD2QPB+ oSb3V8ueSznXBG5+dyfOsZFRPxceA0wA2rSWZSjxLdKxvyGTj9vsCjaDu13rABEBAAHCwV8E GAEIAAkFAlUUt6kCGwwACgkQoZ8SQ+xBJp+HJhAAxmSTsC5y7p9Zu+nnLpucv/h88oEx985e qWeXzQiwM3pfRZS+PdTH9TyzHK0KOgKoAiubk0vt+BrT91D9d0G5kVQaTctAErGBoMkTaZJT XVEcNphiPzysdSqvprjojMp1y7rG8AP+Xd6m0rE1LRnkRRm8HyI8vdXsuLQPITGWXDLMjaNq AOV3BUnzkgtjMuIYw7SCr+12ZOb5dEKvaG4kjC4kaJ/TLbuBhVANcXkC90yp0AOZLs/cB1Dj OAXno/RUUruJ3r27a+pFv768UAi9QWcdw58yPxreMNMLqAgsS9oTHwHfGNWcB2dJ4UW+GMLJ hTf9TjQ2f+N/sIx5XMQ9pYw6CAJMK29qPx6/ZayrPxf22EXf0D3zTwIEZgwfSkynFVwV25L7 awQq60fifdMYheSxq7GbhpsixmcD+e161cCmLIt75YDt5bQ0B1yf7EmxG8n7pGZAOM6LoNsU fkSldba5XVwh8LuN5mK0nQBELGW6Os4TDq4REggLpfcvFC215zpuo0iCGnmE/Bns4nowqUSP u4tkWL+nxW4qgv8wo8HJ52jd79EJ8iqfIBoidBfy9AIUiEUApGQzWPu6yWcI8fY0rN5D+tc+ Yw1Zt6Mm+huYJpgCRsTcfzEcahnBn521CWcWvhW1ff3KFileFMtNmnBBhMncmRKHphtTKEpN 3jI= Organization: 2ndQuadrant Message-ID: Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:30:53 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk On 2019-02-20 22:50, Rohan Kadekodi wrote: > Perf tool shows that there is a non-trivial amount of time spent in > DropCachedPlan and AllocSetAlloc. Does this hint to some sort of caching > being done by PostgreSQL, and is there a way to disable this caching? AllocSetAlloc() is memory allocation, which, well, you need some of. ;-) DropCachedPlan() has to do with how statements are prepared and released. You can probably reduce some of that overhead by using prepared statements consistently. Hard to tell without more details about your test script. Have you looked at pgbench? -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services