On 28.1.2014 08:29, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 01/28/2014 05:54 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>> Then I ran those scripts on:
>>
>> * 9.3
>> * 9.4 with Heikki's patches (9.4-heikki)
>> * 9.4 with Heikki's and first patch (9.4-alex-1)
>> * 9.4 with Heikki's and both patches (9.4-alex-2)
>
> It would be good to also test with unpatched 9.4 (ie. git master). The
> packed posting lists patch might account for a large part of the
> differences between 9.3 and the patched 9.4 versions.
>
> - Heikki
>
Hi,
the e-mail I sent yesterday apparently did not make it into the list,
probably because of the attachments, so I'll just link them this time.
I added the results from 9.4 master to the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Alm8ruV3ChcgdHJfZTdOY2JBSlkwZjNuWGlIaGM0REE
It's a bit cumbersome to analyze though, so I've quickly hacked up a
simple jqplot page that allows comparing the results. It's available
here: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/gin/
It's likely there are some quirks and issues - let me know about them.
The ODT with the data is available here:
http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/gin/gin-scan-benchmarks.ods
Three quick basic observations:
(1) The current 9.4 master is consistently better than 9.3 by about 15% on rare words, and up to 30% on common words.
Seethe charts for 6-word queries:
http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/gin/6-words-rare-94-vs-93.png http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/gin/6-words-rare-94-vs-93.png
With 3-word queries the effects are even stronger & clearer, especially with the common words.
(2) Heikki's patches seem to work OK, i.e. improve the performance, but only with rare words.
http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/gin/heikki-vs-94-rare.png
With 3 words the impact is much stronger than with 6 words, presumably because it depends on how frequent the
combinationof words is (~ multiplication of probabilities). See
http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/gin/heikki-vs-94-3-common-words.png
http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/gin/heikki-vs-94-6-common-words.png
for comparison of 9.4 master vs. 9.4+heikki's patches.
(3) A file with explain plans for 4 queries suffering ~2x slowdown, and explain plans with 9.4 master and Heikki's
patchesis available here:
http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/gin/queries.txt
All the queries have 6 common words, and the explain plans look just fine to me - exactly like the plans for other
queries.
Two things now caught my eye. First some of these queries actually have words repeated - either exactly like
"database& database" or in negated form like "!anything & anything". Second, while generating the queries, I use
"dumb"frequency, where only exact matches count. I.e. "write != written" etc. But the actual number of hits may be
muchhigher - for example "write" matches exactly just 5% documents, but using @@ it matches more than 20%.
I don't know if that's the actual cause though.
regards
Tomas
