Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:26:50 +0800 From: ProAce <proace@gmail.com> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it reliable to increase the MAXCPU in param.h ? Message-ID: <737a6d270807040226q4c4f96ean2400af3aab232ccb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4869EF87.4040707@FreeBSD.org> References: <737a6d270806302225y4763ca70ge9dc5084847e05de@mail.gmail.com> <4869EF87.4040707@FreeBSD.org>
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Testing Report: Server: HP DL785G5 , AMD Opteron 8356 * 8 ( 32 cores ) , 16G RAM DB: PostgreSQL 8.3.3 ( install from ports , default option ) Test tool: super-smack ( install from ports ) Disk: 146G SAS * 2 ( RAID 1 on HP P400 ) OS kernel: Just change the 4BSD to ULE , and increase the MAXCPU to 32. PGSQL's config : default postgresql.conf super-smack's source: default source file & data command: repeat 10 super-smack -d pg select-key.smack [# of client] 10000 And I calculate the average of the 10 results for each execution. # of client | query per sec. ==================== 01 | 5829 02 | 10663 03 | 14399 04 | 16713 05 | 19662 06 | 22434 07 | 25095 08 | 27464 09 | 29783 10 | 31697 11 | 33514 12 | 35298 13 | 36600 14 | 37721 15 | 38061 16 | 39065 17 | 40350 18 | 40525 19 | 41174 20 | 41721 21 | 41354 22 | 39321 23 | 37905 24 | 31794 25 | 29731 26 | 25782 27 | 26069 28 | 23780 29 | 19475 30 | 17867 31 | 17794 32 | 26065 33 | 35252 34 | 36010 35 | 34396 36 | 33878 2008/7/1, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>: > ProAce wrote: > > Server: HP DL785G5 with 8 CPU ( 32 cores ) , 16G RAM > > OS: FreeBSD 7.0-amd64 > > Kernel 1: MAXCPU = 16 ( default ) > > Kernel 2: MAXCPU = 32 > > > > DL785G5 run with kernel 1 and kernel 2 both successfully, and the > > FreeBSD can detect the 16 CPUs and 32 CPUs normally ( using top -S > > command). > > > > If I use kernel 2 for postgresql 8.3, is it reliable and stable? > > > > 32 should be OK, but we haven't had access to such a machine yet (we briefly > had access to a 16-core system but it melted) so we have not yet tuned for > performance on it. FreeBSD 8.0 will run better if you are willing to use a > development version of FreeBSD. > > Kris >
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