Re: Compression of full-page-writes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Compression of full-page-writes
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Msg-id 20131008094911.GB3698093@alap2.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Compression of full-page-writes  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 2013-09-11 12:43:21 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2013-09-11 19:39:14 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> > * Benchmark
> >   pgbench -c 32 -j 4 -T 900 -M prepared
> >   scaling factor: 100
> > 
> >   checkpoint_segments = 1024
> >   checkpoint_timeout = 5min
> >   (every checkpoint during benchmark were triggered by checkpoint_timeout)
> > 
> > * Result
> >   [tps]
> >   1344.2 (full_page_writes = on)
> >   1605.9 (compress)
> >   1810.1 (off)
> > 
> >   [the amount of WAL generated during running pgbench]
> >   4422 MB (on)
> >   1517 MB (compress)
> >     885 MB (off)
> > 
> >   [time required to replay WAL generated during running pgbench]
> >   61s (on)                 .... 1209911 transactions were replayed,
> > recovery speed: 19834.6 transactions/sec
> >   39s (compress)      .... 1445446 transactions were replayed,
> > recovery speed: 37062.7 transactions/sec
> >   37s (off)                 .... 1629235 transactions were replayed,
> > recovery speed: 44033.3 transactions/sec
> 
> ISTM for those benchmarks you should use an absolute number of
> transactions, not one based on elapsed time. Otherwise the comparison
> isn't really meaningful.

I really think we need to see recovery time benchmarks with a constant
amount of transactions to judge this properly.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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