[GENERAL] Increasing CPU usage of PostgreSQL

2013-10-29 Thread Rahila Syed
> iostat -xd 10 > > have to say about it? Yes i was indeed maxing out my IO subsystem. % CPU utilization for io is around 90 percent. I could not notice this earlier because i was firing CPU load queries from a remote machine hence network overhead was coming into picture .Thanks a lot for your

[GENERAL] Increasing CPU usage of PostgreSQL

2013-10-29 Thread Rahila Syed
>Rahila, if you want to saturate the CPU and don't care about the > particular benchmark, try to use read-only transactions. Either just add > "-S" at the pgbench command line, or write something SELECT-only on your > own. Anyway, use '-j' in such cases. Thanks a lot for your suggestion. Using se

Re: [GENERAL] Increasing CPU usage of PostgreSQL

2013-10-26 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 25.10.2013 19:04, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Rahila Syed wrote: >> >> Configurations of my machine is: >> >> Processors: Xeon E5-2650 Processor Kit >> Intel® Xeon ® Processor E5-2650 (2 GHz, 8C/16T, >> 20 MB) * 2 nos >> >> >> RAM : 32GB DDR3

Re: [GENERAL] Increasing CPU usage of PostgreSQL

2013-10-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Rahila Syed wrote: > Hello All, > > I am using jdbcrunner-1.2 to run PostgreSQL performance tests. For > certain tests, i need to increase the CPU usage of the servers > especially at user level. > I tried using both tpcc and tpcb load with scale factor of 100. Eve

[GENERAL] Increasing CPU usage of PostgreSQL

2013-10-25 Thread Rahila Syed
Hello All, I am using jdbcrunner-1.2 to run PostgreSQL performance tests. For certain tests, i need to increase the CPU usage of the servers especially at user level. I tried using both tpcc and tpcb load with scale factor of 100. Even after setting the number of client connections as high as 420,