Re: Testing FusionIO - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Ben Chobot
Subject Re: Testing FusionIO
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Msg-id 55542484-AACC-4F78-A9A7-E9833E6A162A@silentmedia.com
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In response to Re: Testing FusionIO  (Brad Nicholson <bnichols@ca.afilias.info>)
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On Mar 17, 2010, at 7:41 AM, Brad Nicholson wrote:

> As an aside, some folks in our Systems Engineering department here did
> do some testing of FusionIO, and they found that the helper daemons were
> inefficient and placed a fair amount of load on the server.  That might
> be something to watch of for for those that are testing them.

As another anecdote, we have 4 of the 160GB cards in a 24-core Istanbul server. I don't know how efficient the helper
daemonsare, but they do take up about half of one core's cycles, regardless of how busy the box actually is. So that
sounds"bad".... until you take into account how much that one core costs, and compare it to how much it would cost to
havethe same amount of IOPs in a different form.  

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