Re: Benchmark: Dell/Perc 6, 8 disk RAID 10

I decided to reformat the raid 10 into ext2 to see if there was any real
big difference in performance as some people have noted   here is the
test results

please note the WAL files are still on the raid 0 set which is still in
ext3 file system format.  these test where run with the fsync as
before.   I made sure every thing was the same as with the first test.

As you can see there is a  3 to 3.5 times increase in performance
numbers just changing the file system

With -S option set there is not change in performance numbers

-------First Run 10 clients------
C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\bin>pgbench -c 10 -t 40000 -v -h
192.168.1.9 -U
postgres play
Password:
starting vacuum...end.
starting vacuum accounts...end.
transaction type: TPC-B (sort of)
scaling factor: 100
number of clients: 10
number of transactions per client: 40000
number of transactions actually processed: 400000/400000
tps = 2108.036891 (including connections establishing)
tps = 2112.902970 (excluding connections establishing)

-----Second Run 10 clients -----
C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\bin>pgbench -c 10 -t 40000 -v -h
192.168.1.9 -U
postgres play
Password:
starting vacuum...end.
starting vacuum accounts...end.
transaction type: TPC-B (sort of)
scaling factor: 100
number of clients: 10
number of transactions per client: 40000
number of transactions actually processed: 400000/400000
tps = 2316.114949 (including connections establishing)
tps = 2321.990410 (excluding connections establishing)


-----First Run 40 clients --------
C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\bin>pgbench -c 40 -t 10000 -v -h
192.168.1.9 -U
postgres play
Password:
starting vacuum...end.
starting vacuum accounts...end.
transaction type: TPC-B (sort of)
scaling factor: 100
number of clients: 40
number of transactions per client: 10000
number of transactions actually processed: 400000/400000
tps = 2675.585284 (including connections establishing)
tps = 2706.707899 (excluding connections establishing)

---Second Run ----
C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\bin>pgbench -c 40 -t 10000 -v -h
192.168.1.9 -U
postgres play
Password:
starting vacuum...end.
starting vacuum accounts...end.
transaction type: TPC-B (sort of)
scaling factor: 100
number of clients: 40
number of transactions per client: 10000
number of transactions actually processed: 400000/400000
tps = 2600.560421 (including connections establishing)
tps = 2629.952529 (excluding connections establishing)

---- Select Only Option ------
C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\bin>pgbench -S -c 10 -t 40000 -v -h
192.168.1.9
-U postgres play
Password:
starting vacuum...end.
starting vacuum accounts...end.
transaction type: SELECT only
scaling factor: 100
number of clients: 10
number of transactions per client: 40000
number of transactions actually processed: 400000/400000
tps = 18181.818182 (including connections establishing)
tps = 18550.294486 (excluding connections establishing)

C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\bin>pgbench -S -c 40 -t 10000 -v -h
192.168.1.9
-U postgres play
Password:
starting vacuum...end.
starting vacuum accounts...end.
transaction type: SELECT only
scaling factor: 100
number of clients: 40
number of transactions per client: 10000
number of transactions actually processed: 400000/400000
tps = 18991.548761 (including connections establishing)
tps = 20729.684909 (excluding connections establishing)