> 100 transactions seems barely enough to get through startup
> transients.
> Maybe 1000 would be good.
OK.
>
> I think the hard part of this is the reporting process. How
> do we track how performance varies over time? It doesn't
> seem very useful to compare different buildfarm members, but
> a longitudinal display of performance on a single buildfarm
> machine over time would be cool.
> (I'm still missing Mark Wong's daily OSDL performance reports :-()
>
I was thinking that the output from pgbench would be sent back to the
server and stored somewhere for later analysis.
> Actually the $64 question here is whether we trust pgbench as
> the standard performance test ...
I think that it's what we've got today, and if tomorrow it gets better,
then the data we get from the buildfarm will improve similarly.
Regards,
Paul Bort
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