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From: Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: wal_synch_method = open_sync safe on RHEL 5.5?
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:19:52 +1200
Message-ID: <4C1AF3E8.4030608@catalyst.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C1AE820.6020506@2ndquadrant.com>
References: <4C1ACE5F.1080802@catalyst.net.nz>
	<4C1AE820.6020506@2ndquadrant.com>

On 18/06/10 15:29, Greg Smith wrote:
>
> P.S. Be wary of expecting pgbench to give you useful numbers on a 
> single run.  For the default write-heavy test, I recommend three runs 
> of 10 minutes each (-T 600 on recent PostgreSQL versions) before I 
> trust any results it gives.  You can get useful data from the 
> select-only test in only a few seconds, but not the one that writes a 
> bunch.
>

Yeah, I did several runs of each, and a couple with -c 128 and -t 100000 
to give the setup a good workout (also 2000-2400 tps, nice to see a well 
behaved SAN).


Cheers

Mark



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