Re: Linux: more cores = less concurrency.

From: Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: david(at)lang(dot)hm, Steve Clark <sclark(at)netwolves(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Linux: more cores = less concurrency.
Date: 2011-04-12 16:07:00
Message-ID: 812972.84286.qm@web26008.mail.ukl.yahoo.com
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--- On Tue, 12/4/11, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> wrote:

> Wow, zero idle and zero wait, and single digit for
> system.  Did you
> ever run those RAM speed tests?  (I don't remember
> seeing results
> for that -- or failed to recognize them.)  At this
> point, my best
> guess at this point is that you don't have the bandwidth to
> RAM to
> support the CPU power.  Databases tend to push data
> around in RAM a
> lot.

I mentioned sysbench was giving me something like 3000 MB/sec on memory write tests, but nothing more.

Results from Greg Smiths stream_scaling test are here:

http://www.privatepaste.com/4338aa1196

>
> When I mentioned profiling, I was thinking more of oprofile
> or
> something like it.  If it were me, I'd be going there
> by now.
>

Advice taken, it'll be my next step.

Glyn

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