Re: hardware upgrade, performance degrade?

From: Jesper Krogh <jesper(at)krogh(dot)cc>
To: Steven Crandell <steven(dot)crandell(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: hardware upgrade, performance degrade?
Date: 2013-03-02 07:30:22
Message-ID: 3651A562-DBBC-4F0F-AD59-BF03420A46B0@krogh.cc
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On 01/03/2013, at 10.52, Steven Crandell <steven(dot)crandell(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Recently I moved my ~600G / ~15K TPS database from a
> 48 core(at)2(dot)0GHz server with 512GB RAM on 15K RPM disk
> to a newer server with
> 64 core(at)2(dot)2Ghz server with 1T of RAM on 15K RPM disks
>
> The move was from v9.1.4 to v9.1.8 (eventually also tested with v9.1.4 on the new hardware) and was done via base backup followed by slave promotion.
> All postgres configurations were matched exactly as were system and kernel parameters.
>

my guess is that you have gone down in clockfrequency on memory when you doubled the amount of memory

in a mainly memory cached database the performance is extremely sensitive to memory speed

Jesper

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