From: William Yu <wyu@talisys.com>
Subject: Re: Trying to figure out pgbench
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:53:52 -0700
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I wonder if the -c parameter is truly submitting everything in parallel. 
Having 2 telnet sessions up -- 1 doing -c 1 and another doing -c 100 -- 
I don't see much different in the display speed messages. Perhaps it's 
an issue with the telnet console display limiting the command speed. I 
thought about piping the output to /dev/null but then the final TPS 
results are also piped there. I can try piping output to a file on a 
ramdisk maybe.


Mohan, Ross wrote:
> I had a similar experience. 
> 
> regardless of scaling, etc, I got same results. almost like flags
> are not active. 
> 
> did
> 
> pgbench -I template1
> and
> pgbench -c 10 -t 50 -v -d 1 
> 
> and played around from there....
> 
> This is on IBM pSeries, AIX5.3, PG8.0.2
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of William Yu
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 12:05 PM
> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
> Subject: [PERFORM] Trying to figure out pgbench
> 
> 
> My Dual Core Opteron server came in last week. I tried to do some 
> benchmarks with pgbench to get some numbers on the difference between 
> 1x1 -> 2x1 -> 2x2 but no matter what I did, I kept getting the same TPS 
> on all systems. Any hints on what the pgbench parameters I should be using?
> 
> In terms of production use, it definitely can handle more load. 
> Previously, Apache/Perl had to run on a separate server to avoid a ~50% 
> penalty. Now, the numbers are +15% performance even with Apache/Perl 
> running on the same box as PostgreSQL. How much more load of course is 
> what I'd like to quantify.
> 
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