Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] pg_autovacuum w/ dbt2

2005-01-07 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Mark Wong wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:13:52AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: Mark, All default parameters. Matthew also recommended using the vacuum_delay setting so I was about to try that. Interesting ... the default parameters are quite conservative, running only when the table

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] pg_autovacuum w/ dbt2

2005-01-07 Thread Mark Wong
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:13:52AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > Mark, > > > All default parameters. Matthew also recommended using the > > vacuum_delay setting so I was about to try that. > > Interesting ... the default parameters are quite conservative, running only > when the table has doubled

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] pg_autovacuum w/ dbt2

2005-01-07 Thread Josh Berkus
Mark, > All default parameters. Matthew also recommended using the > vacuum_delay setting so I was about to try that. Interesting ... the default parameters are quite conservative, running only when the table has doubled in new rows. So if those spikes are vacuums, then the DBT2 test is upda

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] pg_autovacuum w/ dbt2

2005-01-07 Thread Mark Wong
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:58:47AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > Mark, > > > No manual vacuum commands before. The decline in performance has been > > pretty consistent in all my previous tests and people have told me on > > many occasions that the decline in performance was probably because I > >

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] pg_autovacuum w/ dbt2

2005-01-07 Thread Josh Berkus
Mark, > No manual vacuum commands before. The decline in performance has been > pretty consistent in all my previous tests and people have told me on > many occasions that the decline in performance was probably because I > was never using vacuum... Hmmm ... what autovacuum params are you using?

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] pg_autovacuum w/ dbt2

2005-01-07 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Ok, but what I'm curious to do is see if you run the non-pg_autovacuum test for a "long time" (4 hours? more?) when does it get slower that running with pg_autovacuum. And, can you demonstrate that running the tests with pg_autovacuum for a long time (say 4 hours) that the performance stays st

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] pg_autovacuum w/ dbt2

2005-01-07 Thread Mark Wong
Yeah, same hardware and database configuration. No manual vacuum commands before. The decline in performance has been pretty consistent in all my previous tests and people have told me on many occasions that the decline in performance was probably because I was never using vacuum... Mark On Fri

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] pg_autovacuum w/ dbt2

2005-01-07 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
I'm curious, the original run you posted with 3825 NOTPM is still 17% faster than the latest pg_autovacuum run which shows 3280 NOTPM. Is this on the same hardware? Also, did the original non-pg_autovacuum run any manual vacuum commands? Also, does the non-pg_autovacuum run start slowing dow

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] pg_autovacuum w/ dbt2

2005-01-06 Thread Mark Wong
I apologize for the significant delay, here's a link to results to a test with 8.0rc3: http://www.osdl.org/projects/dbt2dev/results/dev4-010/236/ These are the same parameters with as run 215, listed below with the but with --enable-debug --enable-cassert. I also ran pg_autovacuum with -d