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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 and PostgreSQL 9.3 scalability issues
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Petr Janda" <janda.petr@gmail.com>


> Hi guys,
> 
> Just want to share these pgbench results done by DragonFlyBSD, and would
> like some input on why these numbers look so bad and what can be done to
> improve (ie. kernel tunables etc) the performance.
> 
> http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20140310/4250b961/attachment-0001.pdf


Do you have the ability to test with FreeBSD 8.x and 9.x to see if this is
regression?

Also you don't mention the FS used in each case, so I'm wondering if you
used a ZFS install of FreeBSD which could help to explain things.

    Regards
    Steve