Re: 8.0.X and the ARC patent

Between those two runs, the vm parameters are the same.

Mark

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:04:21AM -0500, Dave Cramer wrote:
> OK. I doubt that it impacts the results of the particular test, but it
> is non-intuitive (in my mind at least)
> Did you change anything else between 263 and 264? From the table it
> appears that you are changing vm parameters
> as well as database configuration parameters between runs ?
>
> Dave
>
> Mark Wong wrote:
>
> >Yes, those parameters are based on a series of test results here:
> > http://www.osdl.org/projects/dbt2dev/results/pgsql/rc4.html
> >
> >Run 264 provided the best results, so I'm trying to continue with the
> >database parameters used there.
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:41:57AM -0500, Dave Cramer wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I was just looking at the config parameters, and you have the shared
> >>buffers set to 60k, and the effective cache set to 1k ????
> >>
> >>Dave
> >>
> >>Mark Wong wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:17:07PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Mark Wong <markw(at)osdl(dot)org> writes:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 04:57:11PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Curious. The immediate question is "does it ever flatten out, and
> >>>>>>if so at what TPM rate compared to 8.0.1?" Could you run the same
> >>>>>>test for a longer duration?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>The comparison was against 8.0.1, or did you mean 8.0.1 with the 2Q
> >>>>>patch? I can run a longer duration and see how it looks.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>My point was that unpatched 8.0.1 seems to have a pretty level TPM
> >>>>rate. If the patched version levels out at something not far below
> >>>>that, I'll be satisfied. If it continues to degrade then I won't be
> >>>>satisfied ... but the test stops short of telling what will happen.
> >>>>If you could run it for 2 hours then we'd probably know enough.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Ah, ok. I've reapplied the 2Q patch to CVS from 20050301:
> >>> http://www.osdl.org/projects/dbt2dev/results/dev4-010/313/
> >>>
> >>>I ran it for 3 hours, just in case, and the charts suggest it flattens
> >>>out after 2 hours.
> >>>
> >>>Mark
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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