Re: Sun Donated a Sun Fire T2000 to the PostgreSQL community - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Robert Lor
Subject Re: Sun Donated a Sun Fire T2000 to the PostgreSQL community
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Msg-id 44938240.6040804@sun.com
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In response to Re: Sun Donated a Sun Fire T2000 to the PostgreSQL community  (Arjen van der Meijden <acmmailing@tweakers.net>)
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Arjen van der Meijden wrote:

>
> I can already confirm very good scalability (with our workload) on
> postgresql on that machine. We've been testing a 32thread/16G-version
> and it shows near-linear scaling when enabling 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8 cores
> (with all four threads enabled).
>
> The threads are a bit less scalable, but still pretty good. Enabling
> 1, 2 or 4 threads for each core yields resp 60 and 130% extra
> performance.

Wow, what type of workload is it? And did you do much tuning to get
near-linear scalability to 32 threads?

Regards,
-Robert

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