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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:59:52 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org>
Cc:        smp@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems
Message-ID:  <20070227205951.GA56651@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070227182511.GD29041@decibel.org>
References:  <20070224213111.GB41434@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070227182511.GD29041@decibel.org>

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On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:25:11PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> 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.

I've mentioned this a couple of times, but postgresql didn't scale
well [on freebsd at least] when I tried it last year.  I hope to
revisit when I get time.

Kris



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