From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Marty Jia <mjia@ask.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to get higher tps
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:08:35 -0700
Message-ID: <44EA2EE3.8030207@commandprompt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0B9A8C89DCC3AB488A78A4DE0FECDA90019E30D4@SITE3MAIL04.jeeves.ask.info>
References: <0B9A8C89DCC3AB488A78A4DE0FECDA90019E30D4@SITE3MAIL04.jeeves.ask.info>
Marty Jia wrote:
> I'm exhausted to try all performance tuning ideas, like following
> parameters
>
> shared_buffers
> fsync
> max_fsm_pages
> max_connections
> shared_buffers
> work_mem
> max_fsm_pages
> effective_cache_size
> random_page_cost
>
> I believe all above have right size and values, but I just can not get
> higher tps more than 300 testd by pgbench
What values did you use?
>
> Here is our hardware
>
>
> Dual Intel Xeon 2.8GHz
> 6GB RAM
> Linux 2.4 kernel
> RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3
> 200GB for PGDATA on 3Par, ext3
> 50GB for WAL on 3Par, ext3
>
> With PostgreSql 8.1.4
>
> We don't have i/o bottle neck.
Are you sure? What does iostat say during a pgbench? What parameters are
you passing to pgbench?
Well in theory, upgrading to 2.6 kernel will help as well as making your
WAL ext2 instead of ext3.
> Whatelse I can try to better tps? Someone told me I can should get tps
> over 1500, it is hard to believe.
1500? Hmmm... I don't know about that, I can get 470tps or so on my
measily dual core 3800 with 2gig of ram though.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Thanks
>
> Marty
>
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