Re: Test request for Stats collector performance improvement

Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > OK, based on reports I have seen, generally stats_query_string adds 50%
> > to the total runtime of a "SELECT 1" query, and the patch reduces the
> > overhead to 25%.
>
> that is actually not true for both of the platforms(a slow OpenBSD
> 3.9/x86 and a very fast Linux/x86_64) I tested on. Both of them show
> virtually no improvement with the patch and even worst it causes
> considerable (negative) variance on at least the Linux box.

I see the results I suggested on OpenBSD that you reported.

> OpenBSD 3.9-current/x86:
>
> without stats:
> 0m6.79s real 0m1.56s user 0m1.12s system
>
> -HEAD + stats:
> 0m10.44s real 0m2.26s user 0m1.22s system
>
> -HEAD + stats + patch:
> 0m10.68s real 0m2.16s user 0m1.36s system

and I got similar results reported from a Debian:

Linux 2.6.16 on a single processor HT 2.8Ghz Pentium compiled
with gcc 4.0.4.

> > real 0m3.306s
> > real 0m4.905s
> > real 0m4.448s

I am unclear on the cuase for the widely varying results you saw in
Debian.

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