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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2007 22:06:22 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Walter Vaughan <wvaughan@steelerubber.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 8 cores of fun
Message-ID:  <20070521020622.GB46734@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <4650E899.2070001@steelerubber.com>
References:  <4650E899.2070001@steelerubber.com>

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On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:32:25PM -0400, Walter Vaughan wrote:
> I've got a few days to experiment with an 8 core box, and someone pointed 
> this page out to me http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html 
> before I purchased the box.
> 
> Looking at the patch http://people.freebsd.org/~jeff/tophalf.diff it 
> doesn't appear to be patchable with 7-CURRENT.

A more scalable alternative was committed a while ago.

> What I am interested in is Hi-speed Java (really wanted to work with Java6) 
> and Postgresql-8.2.
> 
> Does anyone have any pointers for optimizing Posgresql & Java on AMD-64 
> with 8 cores?

I have not used java, but would be very interested to see how it goes.
The most important thing to do with pgsql is disable the process title
updating (there is a config option in 8.2).  Also use ULE with
sched.kern.pick_pri=0.

Comparisons against other OSes on a suitably interesting benchmark are
most useful to us, otherwise if you have a particular workload and
performance expectation we can try to work with that.

Kris



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