From: Chris Mair <list@1006.org>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: bad performance on Solaris 10
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:39:38 +0200
Message-ID: <1144111178.3723.80.camel@dell.home.lan> (raw)
Hi,
I've got a somewhat puzzling performance problem here.
I'm trying to do a few tests with PostgreSQL 8.1.3 under Solaris
(an OS I'm sort of a newbie in).
The machine is a X4100 and the OS is Solaris 10 1/06 fresh install
according to manual. It's got two SAS disks in RAID 1, 4GB of RAM.
Now the problem is: this box is *much* slower than I expect.
I've got a libpg test program that happily inserts data
using PQputCopyData().
It performs an order of magnitude worse than the same thing
on a small Sun (Ultra20) running Linux. Or 4 times slower than
an iBook (sic!) running MacOS X.
So, I've this very bad feeling that there is something basic
I'm missing here.
Following are some stats:
"sync; dd; sync" show these disks write at 53 MB/s => good.
iostat 1 while my test is running says:
tty sd0 sd1 sd2 sd5
cpu
tin tout kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv us sy
wt id
1 57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1809 23 70 0
1 0 99
0 235 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2186 223 14 1
1 0 99
0 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2488 251 13 1
1 0 98
0 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2296 232 15 1
0 0 99
0 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2416 166 9 1
0 0 98
0 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2528 218 14 1
1 0 99
0 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2272 223 15 1
0 0 99
If I interpret this correctly the disk writes at not more than 2.5
MB/sec while the Opterons do nothing => this is bad.
I've tried both, a hand compile with gcc and the solarispackages
from pgfoundry.org => same result.
Eons ago PCs had those "turbo" switches (it was never totally clear
why they put them there in the first place, anyway). I've this bad
feeling there's a secret "turbo" switch I can't spot hidden somewhere
in Solaris :/
Bye, Chris.
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