Re: Why we are going to have to go DirectIO

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet(at)lwn(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why we are going to have to go DirectIO
Date: 2013-12-05 20:41:44
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYzUHBnqHNeGO0jRvUY0wtySnbYRMw312kpcXrxMtRAEQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> Actually, I've been able to do 35K TPS on commodity hardware on Ubuntu
> 10.04. I have yet to go about 15K on any Ubuntu running a 3.X Kernel.
> The CPU scheduling on 2.6 just seems to be far better tuned, aside from
> the IO issues; at 35K TPS, the CPU workload is evenly distributed across
> cores, whereas on 3.X it lurches from core to core like a drunk in a
> cathedral.

Do drunks lurch differently in cathedrals than they do elsewhere?

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Robert Haas
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