FYI, we (Stefan and I) started a wiki page to organize this effort:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Performances_QA_testing . Ideas and
participation are very welcome.
I also described the platform we have here and the usage of each
server:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/QA_Platform_hosted_at_Op
On Apr 1, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
* Greg Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
=4 cores, >=8GB RAM, and >=8 disks with a usable write-caching
controller
in it.
hrmmm. So a DL385G2, dual-proc/dual-core with 16GB of ram and 8 SAS
disks with a Smart Array P800 w/ 512MB of write cache
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As far as the other more powerful machines you mentioned go, would need to
> know a bit more about the disks and disk controller in there to comment
> about whether those are worth the trouble to integrate. The big missing
>
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm almost done scripting up everything to load the TIGER/Line
> Shapefiles from the US Census into PostgreSQL/PostGIS. Once it's done
> and working I would be happy to provide it to whomever asks, and it
> might be an
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The pgbench-tools utilities I was working on at one point anticipated this
> sort of test starting one day. You can't really get useful results out of
> pgbench without running it enough times that you get average or median
* Greg Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >=4 cores, >=8GB RAM, and >=8 disks with a usable write-caching controller
> in it.
hrmmm. So a DL385G2, dual-proc/dual-core with 16GB of ram and 8 SAS
disks with a Smart Array P800 w/ 512MB of write cache would be helpful?
I've got quite a few such ma
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Guillaume Smet wrote:
I wonder if it's not worth it to have a very simple thing already
reporting results as the development cycle for 8.4 has already started
(perhaps several pgbench unit tests testing various type of queries with
a daily tree)
The pgbench-tools utilitie
Guillaume,
* Guillaume Smet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> These servers are available 24/7 to PostgreSQL QA and won't be used
> for other purposes.
Awesome.
> Concerning the second point, I wonder if it's not worth it to have a
> very simple thing already reporting results as the development cycl
-hackers,
As I announced it a couple of months ago, apart from the boxes donated
to PostgreSQLFr (affected to the web team IIRC), Continuent also
donated 7 servers and a Gb/s switch to us for QA testing. It took some
time to set them up but they're now up and running and available.
These servers a
