From: | Stephen Froehlich <s(dot)froehlich(at)cablelabs(dot)com> |
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To: | Pól Ua Laoínecháin <linehanp(at)tcd(dot)ie> |
Cc: | pgsql-novice <pgsql-novice(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | RE: Using PGTune - is it a good source for system configuration? |
Date: | 2021-09-01 22:41:14 |
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Yes, I have found that most PostgreSQL workloads do benefit some (like 25% to 30%) from Intel hyperthreading.
With 4 threads, I would probably start out at:
max_worker_processes = 4
max_parallel_workers_per_gather = 2
max_parallel_workers = 3
max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 1
And then keep an eye on htop ... and go from there. Remember that for this generation of processor, the speculative execution patches make context switching (changing which software thread a hyperthread is working on) quite expensive, so its bad to max out the processor, and your gains above the 2 cores will be small.
But honestly I have never run PostgreSQL on a machine with fewer than 12 cores / 24 threads.
--Stephen
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From: Pól Ua Laoínecháin <linehanp(at)tcd(dot)ie>
Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 12:16
Cc: pgsql-novice <pgsql-novice(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Using PGTune - is it a good source for system configuration?
Hi, and thanks for replying.
> Not according to its "about" page...
Yeah, sure, it's not a silver bullet, but the thrust of my question
was: do the community experts consider it reliable enough as a first approximation?
Your remarks about "better than the generic defaults" reassures me that this is the case.
This is just my laptop - but I've taken PGTune's recommendations before for a data loading and it was a real help...
One other question that I forgot to include in my original!
I have a two CPU core (that's why I put 2 for the number of CPUs) but my processor supports hyperthreading (Intel Core i5, 7th Gen), so should I really put 4 as the no.
Changing this from 2 to 4 changes the
work_mem from 41943kB to 20971kB and the worker settings from
max_worker_processes = 2
max_parallel_workers_per_gather = 1
max_parallel_workers = 2
max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 1
to
max_worker_processes = 4
max_parallel_workers_per_gather = 2
max_parallel_workers = 4
max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2
So, which would be the correct Number of CPUs setting given my processor?
TIA and rgs,
Pól...
> David J.
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