From: Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: HT on or off for E5-26xx ?
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:20:43 +1300
Message-ID: <509AD0AB.5010109@catalyst.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509A631F.2010507@boreham.org>
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On 08/11/12 02:33, David Boreham wrote:
> On 11/6/2012 9:16 PM, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>>
>>
>> I've been benchmarking a E5-4640 (4 socket) and hyperthreading off
>> gave much better scaling behaviour in pgbench (gentle rise and
>> flatten off), whereas with hyperthreading on there was a dramatic
>> falloff after approx number clients = number of (hyperthreaded) cpus.
>> The box is intended to be a pure db server, so we are running with
>> hyperthreading off.
>
> It looks like this syndrome is not observed on my box, likely due to
> the much lower number of cores system-wide (12).
> I see pgbench tps increase nicely until #threads/clients == #cores,
> then plateau. I tested up to 96 threads btw.
>
> We're waiting on more memory modules to arrive. I'll post some test
> results once we have all 4 memory banks populated.
>
>
>
>
Interesting - I was wondering if a single socket board would behave
differently (immediately after posting of course)...I've got an i3 home
system that scales nicely even with hyperthreading on (2 cores, 4
typerthreads).
Cheers
Mark
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