Re: Turn off Hyperthreading! WAS: 60 core performance with 9.3 - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Turn off Hyperthreading! WAS: 60 core performance with 9.3
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Msg-id CAEYLb_VM-tL4hjv1mx2DXJEveem5nPsZ2VCrW8GyfcACg1f9KQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Turn off Hyperthreading! WAS: 60 core performance with 9.3  (Shaun Thomas <sthomas@optionshouse.com>)
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Shaun Thomas <sthomas@optionshouse.com> wrote:
> That's so strange. Back when I did my Nehalem tests, we got a very strong
> 30%+ increase by enabling HT. We only got a hit when we turned off turbo, or
> forgot to disable power saving features.

In my experience, it is crucially important to consider power saving
features in most benchmarks these days, where that might not have been
true a few years ago. The CPU scaling governor can alter the outcome
of many benchmarks quite significantly.

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Regards,
Peter Geoghegan


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