Re: Strange behavior: pgbench and new Linux kernels - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: Strange behavior: pgbench and new Linux kernels
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.64.0804181317480.6528@westnet.com
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In response to Re: Strange behavior: pgbench and new Linux kernels  (Matthew <matthew@flymine.org>)
List pgsql-performance
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Matthew wrote:

> You may also be seeing processes forced to switch between CPUs, which
> breaks the caches even more. So what happens if you run pgbench on a
> separate machine to the server? Does the problem still exist in that
> case?

I haven't run that test yet but will before I submit a report.  I did
however try running things with the pgbench executable itself bound to a
single CPU with no improvement.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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