Re: Moving more work outside WALInsertLock - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Sorry. Last minute changes, didn't retest properly.. Here's another attempt.

I tried this one out on Nate Boley's system.  Looks pretty good.

m = master, x = with xloginsert-scale-2 patch.  shared_buffers = 8GB,
maintenance_work_mem = 1GB, synchronous_commit = off,
checkpoint_segments = 300, checkpoint_timeout = 15min,
checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9, wal_writer_delay = 20ms.  pgbench,
scale factor 100, median of five five-minute runs.

Permanent tables:

m01 tps = 631.875547 (including connections establishing)
x01 tps = 611.443724 (including connections establishing)
m08 tps = 4573.701237 (including connections establishing)
x08 tps = 4576.242333 (including connections establishing)
m16 tps = 7697.783265 (including connections establishing)
x16 tps = 7837.028713 (including connections establishing)
m24 tps = 11613.690878 (including connections establishing)
x24 tps = 12924.027954 (including connections establishing)
m32 tps = 10684.931858 (including connections establishing)
x32 tps = 14168.419730 (including connections establishing)
m80 tps = 10259.628774 (including connections establishing)
x80 tps = 13864.651340 (including connections establishing)

And, on unlogged tables:

m01 tps = 681.805851 (including connections establishing)
x01 tps = 665.120212 (including connections establishing)
m08 tps = 4753.823067 (including connections establishing)
x08 tps = 4638.690397 (including connections establishing)
m16 tps = 8150.519673 (including connections establishing)
x16 tps = 8082.504658 (including connections establishing)
m24 tps = 14069.077657 (including connections establishing)
x24 tps = 13934.955205 (including connections establishing)
m32 tps = 18736.317650 (including connections establishing)
x32 tps = 18888.585420 (including connections establishing)
m80 tps = 17709.683344 (including connections establishing)
x80 tps = 18330.488958 (including connections establishing)

Unfortunately, it does look like there is some raw loss of performance
when WALInsertLock is NOT badly contended; hence the drop-off at a
single client on permanent tables, and up through 24 clients on
unlogged tables.

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Robert Haas
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