Re: Power8 Tests

Dear All,

Thanks for the respond,

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > On 02/06/2015 09:55 PM, julyanto SUTANDANG wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > Start from today until next 10 days, we have been given access to IBM's
> > > Power8 Machines to test the PostgreSQL.
> >
>
> Good to know about this information.
>
> > > We are planning to test using pgBench and HammerDB, anyone which
> > > interest in this task, please reply me and i will share the test plan
> and
> > > we are open for any discussion I am open to any ideas on how we are
> > > going to test.
>
> Which PostgreSQL version are you planing to use for your tests?
> Sometime back, I have done the performance test for read-write pgbench
> on Power8 m/c and came to know that scalability is not good.
> I am interested to see your tests results especially of HammerDB.
>

We are planning to use PostgreSQL 9.4.1, and PostgresPlus from EnterpriseDB
for comparison perhaps we will run MariaDB or Mysql as well.

Benchmarking that we will use is pgbench and HammerDB. it is TPC-B and TPC-C

> > > IBM claim that Power8 runs almost 1.6 faster than Power7 and with
> > > 8HT per core, that would be great advantages for databases like
> > > PostgreSQL to run faster and better. Each Core has 3.6 Ghz Clock
> > > speed.
>
> Yeah, in all my tests I have seen considerable difference of TPS between
> Power7 and Power8 m/c (Power8 is better), so testing on Power8 makes
> sense.
>
> Can we continue the discussion in this list? or better we create a loop
for this discussion?
Thanks

>
> > Synchronize with Amit, since he's already been doing some testing.
> >
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> With Regards,
> Amit Kapila.
> EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>

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