From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 17 18:52:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5B8516A400 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:52:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kevin@insidesystems.net) Received: from imap.insidesystems.net (imap.insidesystems.net [206.216.149.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF5FE13C457 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:52:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kevin@insidesystems.net) Received: from [68.32.227.193] (helo=[127.0.0.1]) by imap.insidesystems.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Hdsmx-0003kc-N0; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:52:27 +0000 Message-ID: <4625174B.5090208@insidesystems.net> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:51:55 -0400 From: Kevin Way Organization: Inside Systems, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: <461B0CD0.8090404@insidesystems.net> <20070417174825.X42234@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20070417174825.X42234@fledge.watson.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms000505020807070508040807" Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone interested in improving postgresql scaling? X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:52:28 -0000 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms000505020807070508040807 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Robert Watson wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Kevin Way wrote: > >> Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> If so, then your task is the following: >>> >>> Make SYSV semaphores less dumb about process wakeups. Currently >>> whenever the semaphore state changes, all processes sleeping on the >>> semaphore are woken, even if we only have released enough resources >>> for one waiting process to claim. i.e. there is a thundering herd >>> wakeup situation which destroys performance at high loads. Fixing >>> this will involve replacing the wakeup() calls with appropriate >>> amounts of wakeup_one(). >> Could this cause problem cause a situation where an 8-Core system was >> 50-75% slower than an otherwise equivalent 2-Core system? >> >> I have a graph of my sysbench/pgsql results here: >> >> http://blog.insidesystems.net/files/sysctl-pgsq-amd64-wtf.png >> >> As the graph shows, the 8-core system is about half the speed of the >> 2-core system at 2 simultaneous threads, and it decays down to >> approximately 1/4 the speed of the 2-core system as the # of threads >> hits 5. >> >> All other (non-pgsql, non-sysv) tests came back approximately as >> expected, but I'm left wondering if I did something wrong, or if 8 >> cpus are slower than 2, when it comes to Postgres on currently >> available FreeBSD. >> >> Kevin Way Inside Systems, Inc. >> >> (Full detail of what I did is available at: >> http://blog.insidesystems.net/articles/2007/04/09/what-did-i-do-wrong ) > > Would you be able to re-run these tests trying a recent 7.x kernel? > If so, make sure you build a non-debugging kernel, and try two > variants: one with SCHED_4BSD, and one with SCHED_ULE. > > Another experiment that would be interesting is to try using > device.hints to disable various numbers of CPUs on your 8-core system, > and see how the performance graph changes as the number of enabled > CPUs changes. > > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge I built 7.0 as of 6 days ago, and ran the same test using 8-cores, ULE and 4BSD. The results are available at: http://blog.insidesystems.net/articles/2007/04/11/postgresql-scaling-on-6-2-and-7-0 Unfortunately, I can't run the additional tests, as the machines in question have now been deployed to production. I should have similar equipment available in a few weeks, and will try the other tests at that point. 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