postgres 9.3 vs. 9.4 - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Hi Folk,

I am trying to investigate some performance issues which we have with postgres
(a different topic by itself) and tried postgres.9.4beta2, with a hope that it
perform better.

Turned out that 9.4 is 2x slower than 9.3.5 on the same hardware.

Some technical details:

  Host: rhel 6.5 2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64
  256 GB RAM, 40 cores, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v2 @ 2.20GHz
  2x160GB  PCIe SSD DELL_P320h-MTFDGAL175SAH ( on one 9.3, on an other one 9.4 )

postgres tweaks:


default_statistics_target = 100
wal_writer_delay = 10s
vacuum_cost_delay = 50
synchronous_commit = off
maintenance_work_mem = 2GB
checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9
effective_cache_size = 94GB
work_mem = 402MB
wal_buffers = 16MB
checkpoint_segments = 64
shared_buffers = 8GB
max_connections = 100
random_page_cost = 1.5
# other goodies
log_line_prefix = '%m <%d %u %r> %%'
log_temp_files = 0
log_min_duration_statement = 5

in both cases databases are fresh - no data.

Here is a results with pgbench.


9.3.5:

# /usr/pgsql-9.3/bin/pgbench -r -j 1 -c 1 -T 60
starting vacuum...end.
transaction type: TPC-B (sort of)
scaling factor: 1
query mode: simple
number of clients: 1
number of threads: 1
duration: 60 s
number of transactions actually processed: 96361
tps = 1605.972262 (including connections establishing)
tps = 1606.064501 (excluding connections establishing)
statement latencies in milliseconds:
    0.001391    \set nbranches 1 * :scale
    0.000473    \set ntellers 10 * :scale
    0.000430    \set naccounts 100000 * :scale
    0.000533    \setrandom aid 1 :naccounts
    0.000393    \setrandom bid 1 :nbranches
    0.000468    \setrandom tid 1 :ntellers
    0.000447    \setrandom delta -5000 5000
    0.025161    BEGIN;
    0.131317    UPDATE pgbench_accounts SET abalance = abalance + :delta WHERE aid = :aid;
    0.100211    SELECT abalance FROM pgbench_accounts WHERE aid = :aid;
    0.117406    UPDATE pgbench_tellers SET tbalance = tbalance + :delta WHERE tid = :tid;
    0.114332    UPDATE pgbench_branches SET bbalance = bbalance + :delta WHERE bid = :bid;
    0.086660    INSERT INTO pgbench_history (tid, bid, aid, delta, mtime) VALUES (:tid, :bid, :aid, :delta,
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);
    0.035940    END;


9.4beta2:

# /usr/pgsql-9.3/bin/pgbench -r -j 1 -c 1 -T 60
starting vacuum...end.
transaction type: TPC-B (sort of)
scaling factor: 1
query mode: simple
number of clients: 1
number of threads: 1
duration: 60 s
number of transactions actually processed: 34017
tps = 566.948384 (including connections establishing)
tps = 567.008666 (excluding connections establishing)
statement latencies in milliseconds:
    0.001879    \set nbranches 1 * :scale
    0.000526    \set ntellers 10 * :scale
    0.000490    \set naccounts 100000 * :scale
    0.000595    \setrandom aid 1 :naccounts
    0.000421    \setrandom bid 1 :nbranches
    0.000480    \setrandom tid 1 :ntellers
    0.000484    \setrandom delta -5000 5000
    0.055047    BEGIN;
    0.172179    UPDATE pgbench_accounts SET abalance = abalance + :delta WHERE aid = :aid;
    0.135392    SELECT abalance FROM pgbench_accounts WHERE aid = :aid;
    0.157224    UPDATE pgbench_tellers SET tbalance = tbalance + :delta WHERE tid = :tid;
    0.147969    UPDATE pgbench_branches SET bbalance = bbalance + :delta WHERE bid = :bid;
    0.123001    INSERT INTO pgbench_history (tid, bid, aid, delta, mtime) VALUES (:tid, :bid, :aid, :delta,
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);
    0.957854    END;

any ideas?

Tigran.