Re: Performance evaluation of PostgreSQL's historic releases

[György Vilmos <vilmos(dot)gyorgy(at)gmail(dot)com>]

2009/9/29 Amitabh Kant <amitabhkant(at)gmail(dot)com>

> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:06 PM, György Vilmos <vilmos(dot)gyorgy(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've done a benchmark of recent versions of PostgreSQL's last five major
>> releases to see, how performance has changed during the past years from
>> version to version.
>> You can find the article here:
>> http://suckit.blog.hu/2009/09/26/postgresql_history
>>
>> Thanks for working on this great piece of software!
>>
>> -- <http://suckit.blog.hu/>
>>
>>
> Hello
>
> Thanks for the benchmark. Did you configure FreeBSD kernel parameters too,
> or used the default values?
>
>
kern.ipc.shmall=393216
kern.ipc.shmmax=1610612736
kern.ipc.semmap=256
kern.ipc.shm_use_phys=1
kern.smp.topology="8"
kern.timecounter.smp_tsc=1
kern.timecounter.hardware="TSC"

smp.topology was needed because the current kernel doesn't recognize the
correct cache topology on this machine.

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