Re: Perfomance degradation 9.3 (vs 9.2) for FreeBSD

From: Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred(at)freebsd(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net, girgen(at)freebsd(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com, ftigeot(at)wolfpond(dot)org, Tom Sparks <tgs(at)norse-corp(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Perfomance degradation 9.3 (vs 9.2) for FreeBSD
Date: 2014-04-26 19:32:58
Message-ID: 535C09EA.9060500@nasby.net
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On 4/22/14, 5:01 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
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> Hey folks, I just spoke with our director of netops Tom Sparks here at Norse and we have a vested interest in Postgresql. We can throw together a cluster of 4 machines with specs approximately in the range of dual quad core westmere with ~64GB of ram running FreeBSD 10 or 11. We can also do an Ubungu install as well or other Linux distro. Please let me know if that this would be a something that the project could make use of please.
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> We also have colo space and power, etc. So this would be the whole deal. The cluster would be up for as long as needed.
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> Are the machine specs sufficient? Any other things we should look for?
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> CC'd Tom on this email.

Did anyone respond to this off-list?

Would these machines be more useful as dedicated performance test servers for the community or generic BenchFarm members?
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