Re: Best COPY Performance

Greg,

On 10/30/06 7:09 AM, "Spiegelberg, Greg" <gspiegelberg(at)cranel(dot)com> wrote:

> I broke that file into 2 files each of 550K rows and performed 2
> simultaneous COPY's after dropping the table, recreating, issuing a sync
> on the system to be sure, &c and nearly every time both COPY's finish in
> 12 seconds. About a 20% gain to ~91K rows/second.
>
> Admittedly, this was a pretty rough test but a 20% savings, if it can be
> put into production, is worth exploring for us.

Did you see whether you were I/O or CPU bound in your single threaded COPY?
A 10 second "vmstat 1" snapshot would tell you/us.

With Mr. Workerson (:-) I'm thinking his benefit might be a lot better
because the bottleneck is the CPU and it *may* be the time spent in the
index building bits.

We've found that there is an ultimate bottleneck at about 12-14MB/s despite
having sequential write to disk speeds of 100s of MB/s. I forget what the
latest bottleneck was.

- Luke