Re: Test lab

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 17:25 -0700, Mark Wong wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:20:27 -0400
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> > "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > > My question is -hackers, is who wants first bite and what do they
> > > want :)
> >
> > Something I'd like to have back real soon is the daily DBT run against
> > CVS HEAD that Mark Wong was doing at OSDL. Maybe we don't need a
> > particularly enormous machine for that, but comparable runs day after
> > day are real nice for noting when patches had unexpected performance
> > impacts...
>
> I expect the processors in this system to be faster than what I was using but this system does have about a third of the number of spindles I had previously. In my spare time I am trying to complete a TPC-E implementation (dbt5) to the current spec revision and it is supposed to have significantly less disk requirements than the TPC-C derivative (dbt2) I was using in the past. If we believe TPC-E achieved all its goals, I think it would be appropriate to start using that as soon as the kit is ready.
>
> Anyway want to help with the kit? :) It's the C stored functions that need to be revised.

Mark,

Why don't you post a TODO list for TPC-E somewhere, so people can bite
small pieces off of the list. I'm sure there's lots of people can help
if we do it that way.

I'm more interested now in less disk-bound workloads, so TPC-E is good.

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Simon Riggs
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