Re: Wierd context-switching issue on Xeon

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Dirk Lutzebäck <lutzeb(at)aeccom(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Wierd context-switching issue on Xeon
Date: 2004-04-20 16:48:14
Message-ID: 200404201648.i3KGmEV27394@candle.pha.pa.us
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Dirk Lutzebck wrote:
> Dirk Lutzebaeck wrote:
>
> > c) Dual XEON DP, non-bigmem, HT on, E7500 Intel chipset (Supermicro)
> >
> > performs well and I could not observe context switch peaks here (one
> > user active), almost no extra semop calls
>
> Did Tom's test here: with 2 processes I'll reach 200k+ CS with peaks to
> 300k CS. Bummer.. Josh, I don't think you can bash the ServerWorks
> chipset here nor bigmem.

Dave Cramer reproduced the problem on my SuperMicro dual Xeon on BSD/OS.

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