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Re: Sun Donated a Sun Fire T2000 to the PostgreSQL


  • From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>
  • Cc: Robert(dot)Lor(at)Sun(dot)COM, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Sun Donated a Sun Fire T2000 to the PostgreSQL
  • Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:52:16 -0400
  • Message-id: <28596.1153698736@sss.pgh.pa.us> <text/plain>

Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
>>> Interesting. We (some Japanese companies including SRA OSS,
>>> Inc. Japan) did some PG scalability testing using a Unisys's big 16
>>> (physical) CPU machine and found PG scales up to 8 CPUs. However
>>> beyond 8 CPU PG does not scale anymore. The result can be viewed at
>>> "OSS iPedia" web site (http://ossipedia.ipa.go.jp). Our conclusion was
>>> PG has a serious lock contention problem in the environment by
>>> analyzing the oprofile result.

Can you retry this test case using CVS tip?  I'm curious to see if
having partitioned the BufMappingLock helps ...

			regards, tom lane



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