Build pgbench in the contrib subdirectory of the source. Run it
for a reasonably large number of transactions and numbers of
clients from one to N (10, 20, etc).
That's a benchmark that anyone else with the source can also
build and run.
Steve Wolfe wrote:
> I mentioned this in another message, but I'll reiterate it for
>everyone's sake. In a day or two, I'll have the chance to pit two
>machines against each other to test their capacity at serving out queries
>with Postgres - a dual Athlon MP 1800+ and a quad 700 MHz Xeon, both
>running Linux. The benchmark I'm planning on running involves a sample of
>queries taken from our day-to-day production, so that would most likely
>reflect what *I* can expect out of the machine.
>
> However, if anyone is interested, and has any other PG benchmarks on
>them to get some numbers, feel free to let me know. I'll only have about
>a day to run all of the benchmarks, so they have to be reasonably-sized.
>Once I'm done, I'll make a full report.
>
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