CI speed improvements for FreeBSD

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: CI speed improvements for FreeBSD
Date: 2023-08-27 22:29:39
Message-ID: CA+hUKG+FXLcEg1dyTqJjDiNQ8pGom4KrJj4wF38C90thti9dVA@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

Here are a couple of changes that got FreeBSD down to 4:29 total, 2:40
in test_world in my last run (over 2x speedup), using a RAM disk
backed by a swap partition, and more CPUs. It's still a regular UFS
file system but FreeBSD is not as good at avoiding I/O around short
lived files and directories as Linux: it can get hung up on a bunch of
synchronous I/O, and also flushes disk caches for those writes,
without an off switch.

I don't know about Windows, but I suspect the same applies there, ie
synchronous I/O blocking system calls around our blizzard of file
creations and unlinks. Anyone know how to try it?

Attachment Content-Type Size
0001-ci-Use-a-RAM-disk-on-FreeBSD.patch text/x-patch 1.9 KB
0002-ci-Use-more-CPUs-on-FreeBSD.patch text/x-patch 848 bytes

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