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Date:      Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:45:19 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PostgreSQL performance scaling
Message-ID:  <AANLkTikyK_q1Uw%2BSWHB9EMTNRgiQhA9frhdUYy7KoQF_@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4CEB8AEF.7030202@freebsd.org>
References:  <iccd37$lhh$1@dough.gmane.org> <op.vmj44dm634t2sn@skeletor.lan> <4CEA9C46.8010507@freebsd.org> <icf1nk$192$1@dough.gmane.org> <icf36a$8ik$1@dough.gmane.org> <4CEB8AEF.7030202@freebsd.org>

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On 23 November 2010 10:35, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Ivan Voras wrote:

>> and the overall behaviour is similar - the processes spend a lot of time
>> in "sbwait" and "ksem" states.
>>
> Strange, the POSIX semaphore in head branch does not use ksem, it is
> based on umtx, there is no limit on POSIX semaphore, the only limit
> is process's address space which limits how many semaphores can be
> used.

*shrug*; I don't know how it could be wrong - this PostgreSQL was
built from ports after I upgraded & booted 9-current.

If it didn't use POSIX semaphores from HEAD, shared semaphores
wouldn't have worked, right?



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