size of cache

From: Jean-Max Reymond <jmreymond(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: size of cache
Date: 2005-07-13 08:20:51
Message-ID: 4b09a0c05071301207d452ace@mail.gmail.com
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with my application, it seems that size of cache has great effect:
from 512 Kb of L2 cache to 1Mb boost performance with a factor 3 and
20% again from 1Mb L2 cache to 2Mb L2 cache.
I don't understand why a 512Kb cache L2 is too small to fit the data's
does it exist a tool to trace processor activity and confirm that
processor is waiting for memory ?
does it exist a tool to snapshot postgres activity and understand
where we spend time and potentialy avoid the bottleneck ?

thanks for your tips.

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Jean-Max Reymond
CKR Solutions Open Source
Nice France
http://www.ckr-solutions.com

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