Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Sun Donated a Sun Fire T2000 to the PostgreSQL community

2006-06-17 Thread Jim Nasby
On Jun 16, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: First thing as soon as I have a login, of course, is to set up a Buildfarm instance. Keep in mind that buildfarm clients and benchmarking stuff don't usually mix well. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervas

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Sun Donated a Sun Fire T2000 to the PostgreSQL community

2006-06-17 Thread Jim Nasby
On Jun 16, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: Folks, I am thrill to inform you all that Sun has just donated a fully loaded T2000 system to the PostgreSQL community, and it's being setup by Corey Shields at OSL (osuosl.org) and should be online probably early next week. The system has

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Sun Donated a Sun Fire T2000 to the PostgreSQL community

2006-06-16 Thread Robert Lor
Arjen van der Meijden wrote: I can already confirm very good scalability (with our workload) on postgresql on that machine. We've been testing a 32thread/16G-version and it shows near-linear scaling when enabling 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8 cores (with all four threads enabled). The threads are a bit

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Sun Donated a Sun Fire T2000 to the PostgreSQL community

2006-06-16 Thread Josh Berkus
Arjen, > I can already confirm very good scalability (with our workload) on > postgresql on that machine. We've been testing a 32thread/16G-version > and it shows near-linear scaling when enabling 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8 cores > (with all four threads enabled). Keen. We're trying to keep the linear sc

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Sun Donated a Sun Fire T2000 to the PostgreSQL community

2006-06-16 Thread Arjen van der Meijden
On 16-6-2006 17:18, Robert Lor wrote: I think this system is well suited for PG scalability testing, among others. We did an informal test using an internal OLTP benchmark and noticed that PG can scale to around 8 CPUs. Would be really cool if all 32 virtual CPUs can be utilized!!! I can al