Benchmarking a large server

From: Chris Hoover <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: PGSQL Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Benchmarking a large server
Date: 2011-05-09 20:32:27
Message-ID: BANLkTikONPZ_7zQNfbyyN4MGBnn5PXHrAg@mail.gmail.com
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I've got a fun problem.

My employer just purchased some new db servers that are very large. The
specs on them are:

4 Intel X7550 CPU's (32 physical cores, HT turned off)
1 TB Ram
1.3 TB Fusion IO (2 1.3 TB Fusion IO Duo cards in a raid 10)
3TB Sas Array (48 15K 146GB spindles)

The issue we are running into is how do we benchmark this server,
specifically, how do we get valid benchmarks for the Fusion IO card?
Normally to eliminate the cache effect, you run iozone and other benchmark
suites at 2x the ram. However, we can't do that due to 2TB > 1.3TB.

So, does anyone have any suggestions/experiences in benchmarking storage
when the storage is smaller then 2x memory?

Thanks,

Chris

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