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From: joao.pinheiro <joao.pinheiro@pontosi.pt>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Benchmark with FreeBSD 8.0 and pgbench
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 13:41:44 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <28570856.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BEEFA75.6090708@agliodbs.com>
References: <28569544.post@talk.nabble.com>
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Hi,
The tests were made without the -s parameter, (so 1 is assumed). I'm running
the numbers
again on CentOS, with the optimized config and I'll test also different
scale values. I also will be able
to repeat the test again in FreeBSD with ZFS with the new options and
different scale,
but probably I won't repeat the UFS tests. I'll post the data when I finnish
the tests. 

Thanks for your feedback,
  João Pinheiro


Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
> Joao,
> 
> Wow, thanks for doing this!
> 
> In general, your tests seem to show that there isn't a substantial 
> penalty for using ZFS as of version 8.0.
> 
> If you have time for more tests, I'd like to ask you for a few more
> tweaks:
> 
> (1) change the following settings according to conventional wisdom:
> 	wal_buffers = 8MB
> 	effective_cache_size = 9GB
> 	checkpoint_segments = 32
> 	on ZFS only: full_page_writes=off
> 
> (2) What scale were you using for the pgbench database?  I didn't see it 
> in the e-mail.  It would be worth testing:
> 	s = 10 (small database, in memory)
> 	s = 500 (7GB, ram mostly full)
> 	s = 1000 (14GB, slightly larger than ram)
> 	s = 3000 (43GB, much larger than ram)
> 
> If you were only testing a small size in your runs, then the only 
> Filesystem behavoir you were testing was the transaction log.
> 
> (3) Try a ZFS 128K record size
> 
> (4) Centos/Ext3 appears to have had better staying power with high 
> numbers of clients.  Can you continue testing with 50, 100 and 200 
> clients on that combination?  And with data=writeback,noatime on Ext3?
> 
> -- 
>                                    -- Josh Berkus
>                                       PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
>                                       http://www.pgexperts.com
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