Hi,
I am trying to optimize my Debian Sarge AMD64 PostgreSQL 8.0
installation, based on the recommendations from "the Annotated
POSTGRESQL.CONF Guide for
PostgreSQL" (http://www.powerpostgresql.com/Downloads/annotated_conf_80.html). To see the result of the recommendations
Iuse pgbench from postgresql-contrib.
I have 3 questions about pgbench:
1. Is there a repository somewhere that shows results, using and
documenting different kinds of hard- and software setups so that I can
compare my results with someone elses?
2. Is there a reason for the difference in values from run-to-run of
pgbench:
The command I used (nothing else is done on the machine, not even mouse
movement):
jkr@Panoramix:/usr/lib/postgresql/8.0/bin$ ./pgbench -c 10 -t 1000 test
Results for 4 consecutive runs:
tps = 272.932982 (including connections establishing)
tps = 273.262622 (excluding connections establishing)
tps = 199.501426 (including connections establishing)
tps = 199.674937 (excluding connections establishing)
tps = 400.462117 (including connections establishing)
tps = 401.218291 (excluding connections establishing)
tps = 223.695331 (including connections establishing)
tps = 223.919031 (excluding connections establishing)
3. It appears that running more transactions with the same amount of
clients leads to a drop in the transactions per second. I do not
understand why this is (a drop from more clients I do understand). Is
this because of the way pgbench works, the way PostgrSQL works or even
Linux?
jkr@Panoramix:/usr/lib/postgresql/8.0/bin$ ./pgbench -c 10 -t 10 test
tps = 379.218809 (including connections establishing)
tps = 461.968448 (excluding connections establishing)
jkr@Panoramix:/usr/lib/postgresql/8.0/bin$ ./pgbench -c 10 -t 100 test
tps = 533.878031 (including connections establishing)
tps = 546.571141 (excluding connections establishing)
jkr@Panoramix:/usr/lib/postgresql/8.0/bin$ ./pgbench -c 10 -t 1000 test
tps = 204.344440 (including connections establishing)
tps = 204.533627 (excluding connections establishing)
jkr@Panoramix:/usr/lib/postgresql/8.0/bin$ ./pgbench -c 10 -t 10000 test
tps = 121.486803 (including connections establishing)
tps = 121.493681 (excluding connections establishing)
TIA
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Joost Kraaijeveld
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