Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:25:11 -0600 From: "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: smp@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems Message-ID: <20070227182511.GD29041@decibel.org> In-Reply-To: <20070224213111.GB41434@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070224213111.GB41434@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:31:11PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Now that the goals of the SMPng project are complete, for the past > year or more several of us have been working hard on profiling FreeBSD > in various multiprocessor workloads, and looking for performance > bottlenecks to be optimized. > > We have recently made significant progress on optimizing for MySQL > running on an 8-core amd64 system. The graph of results may be found > here: I do *not* want to start a database war here, but I'm wondering if any testing has been done with PostgreSQL? The reason I'm asking is that there are some benchmarks that show MySQL falling off drastically with increased concurrency: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/11/30/interesting-mysql-and-postgresql-benchmarks/ It would be interesting to see how the changes you've made stack up using PostgreSQL as the benchmark. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel@decibel.org Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?"
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