From: Rusty Conover <rconover@infogears.com>
To: Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@rice.edu>
Cc: pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: TCP network cost
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:20:02 -0700
Message-ID: <3FAF940B-9B0B-4DBA-8728-6096022129DF@infogears.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090217070403.GB2486@cooker>
References: <20090217070403.GB2486@cooker>
On Feb 17, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
> Recently I've been working on improving the performance of a system
> that
> delivers files stored in postgresql as bytea data. I was surprised at
> just how much a penalty I find moving from a domain socket
> connection to
> a TCP connection, even localhost. For one particular 40MB file
> (nothing
> outragous) I see ~ 2.5 sec. to download w/ the domain socket, but ~
> 45 sec
> for a TCP connection (either localhost, name of localhost, or from
> another machine 5 hops away (on campus - gigabit LAN) Similar numbers
> for 8.2.3 or 8.3.6 (on Linux/Debian etch + backports)
>
> So, why the 20 fold penalty for using TCP? Any clues on how to trace
> what's up in the network IO stack?
Try running tests with ttcp to eliminate any PostgreSQL overhead and
find out the real bandwidth between the two machines. If its results
are also slow, you know the problem is TCP related and not PostgreSQL
related.
Cheers,
Rusty
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Rusty Conover
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