Re: wal_synch_method = open_sync safe on RHEL 5.5? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Mark Kirkwood
Subject Re: wal_synch_method = open_sync safe on RHEL 5.5?
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Msg-id 4C1AF3E8.4030608@catalyst.net.nz
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In response to Re: wal_synch_method = open_sync safe on RHEL 5.5?  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 18/06/10 15:29, Greg Smith wrote:
>
> P.S. Be wary of expecting pgbench to give you useful numbers on a
> single run.  For the default write-heavy test, I recommend three runs
> of 10 minutes each (-T 600 on recent PostgreSQL versions) before I
> trust any results it gives.  You can get useful data from the
> select-only test in only a few seconds, but not the one that writes a
> bunch.
>

Yeah, I did several runs of each, and a couple with -c 128 and -t 100000
to give the setup a good workout (also 2000-2400 tps, nice to see a well
behaved SAN).


Cheers

Mark

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