Re: Update on the spinlock->pthread_mutex patch experimental: replace s_lock spinlock code with pthread_mutex on linux - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Friday, June 29, 2012 07:07:11 PM Nils Goroll wrote:
> > Also, 20 transactions per connection is not enough of a run to make
> > any evaluation on.
> 
> As you can see I've repeated the tests 10 times. I've tested slight
> variations as mentioned above, so I was looking for quick results with
> acceptable variation.
Running only 20 transactions is still meaningless. Quite often that will means 
that no backends run concurrently because the starting up takes longer than to 
process those 20 transactions. You need at the very, very least 10s. Check out 
-T.

Andres
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