Re: insert performance for win32 - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: insert performance for win32
Date
Msg-id 6EE64EF3AB31D5448D0007DD34EEB3417DD76C@Herge.rcsinc.local
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In response to insert performance for win32  (Marc Cousin <mcousin@sigma.fr>)
Responses Re: insert performance for win32  (Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu>)
List pgsql-performance
> I've done the tests with rc1. This is still as slow on windows ...
about
> 6-10
> times slower thant linux (via Ip socket). (depending on using prepared
> queries, etc...)
>
> By the way, we've tried to insert into the windows database from a
linux
> psql
> client, via the network. In this configuration, inserting is only
about 2
> times slower than inserting locally (the linux client had a slower CPU
> 1700Mhz agains 3000).
> Could it be related to a problem in the windows psql client ?

[OK, I'm bringing this back on-list, and bringing it to QingQing's
attention, who I secretly hope is the right person to be looking at this
problem :)]

Just to recap Marc and I have been looking at the performance disparity
between windows and linux for a single transaction statement by
statement insert on a very narrow table with no keys from a remote
client.  Marc's observations showed (and I verified) that windows is
much slower in this case than it should be.  I gprof'ed both the psql
client and the server during the insert and didn't see anything
seriously out of order...unfortunately QQ's latest win32 performance
tweaks haven't helped.

Marc's observation that by switching to a linux client drops time down
drastically is really intersing!

Merlin



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