Re: usleep feature for pgbench

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: usleep feature for pgbench
Date: 2007-07-05 21:49:39
Message-ID: 20070705214939.GE21455@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > I think I've coded it in a way that if one doesn't use the \usleep
> > command at all, it will never even call gettimeofday() and use a NULL
> > timeout in select() as it used to.
>
> Did you check that the observed performance for non-usleep-using scripts
> didn't change? If this extra overhead causes a reduction in reported
> TPS rates it would make it hard to compare older and newer tests.

I keep wondering, why is that important? If you want to compare results
of different PG versions, surely you can run the tests with the newest
version of pgbench?

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