Re: wal_buffers, redux

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-03-13T22:23:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 03:26:34 AM Robert Haas wrote:
>> Meanwhile, here are some TPS graphs at 16MB and 32MB on the IBM POWER7
>> machine.  32 clients, 1800 seconds, scale factor 300, synchronous
>> commit off.
> That graph makes me cringe because its pretty representative of what I have
> seen in practise. Any chance we can get a ~10s average in there? I find it
> pretty hard to read more than "spikey".

I tried that but don't find it an improvement; however I'm attaching
an example for your consideration.

> Whats the filesystem + options on this?

ext4, default options.  Fedora 16, 3.2.6-3.fc16.ppc64.

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