Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > On 2016-09-13 15:37:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> (It's a 4-core CPU so I saw little point in pressing harder than >> that.)
> I think in reality most busy machines, were performance and scalability > matter, are overcommitted in the number of connections vs. cores. And > if you look at throughput graphs that makes sense; they tend to increase > considerably after reaching #hardware-threads, even if all connections > are full throttle busy. At -j 10 -c 10, all else the same, I get 84928 TPS on HEAD and 90357 with the patch, so about 6% better. >> So at this point I'm wondering why Thomas and Heikki could not measure >> any win. Based on my results it should be easy. Is it possible that >> OS X is better tuned for multi-CPU hardware than FreeBSD? > Hah! Well, there must be some reason why this patch improves matters on OS X and not FreeBSD ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers