Re: [PERFORM] Performance over a LAN

2004-07-23 Thread Greg Stark
"William Carney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The machines used are P4s running FreeBSD 5.2.1. The Postgres version is > 7.4.3. Can anyone tell me why there's such a big difference? You're going to have to run tcpdump and see where the delays are. It might be hard to decode the postgres protoco

Re: [PERFORM] Performance over a LAN

2004-07-23 Thread Gary Cowell
--- William Carney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The test program is a C program with embedded SQL > (ecpg). The only > difference between the tests was the address used in > the EXEC SQL CONNECT > .. statement. The inserts are committed to the > database by performing an > EXEC SQL COMMIT after e

Re: [PERFORM] Performance over a LAN

2004-07-23 Thread Michael Adler
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:20:54PM +0930, William Carney wrote: > But with the server running on one machine and the client running on > another, the two machines being connected by a 100 Mb ethernet, with nothing > else on the network, this test takes 17 minutes to run. I have tried > changing th

Re: [PERFORM] Performance over a LAN

2004-07-23 Thread Jeff
On Jul 23, 2004, at 3:57 AM, William Carney wrote: I tested the LAN connection by transferring around some large (150 MByte) files, and got consistent transfer rates of about 10 MBytes/second in both directions without any problems, which is what I would expect. Netstat says It would be interest

Re: [PERFORM] Performance over a LAN

2004-07-23 Thread Rod Taylor
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 01:50, William Carney wrote: > Hello, > > Using a test client application that performs 10 insert operations on a > table, with the client application running on the same machine as the > Postgres server, I get the following results for the time taken to run the > test: >

Re: [PERFORM] Performance over a LAN

2004-07-23 Thread William Carney
ED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark > Aufflick > Sent: Friday, 23 July 2004 3:50 PM > To: Christopher Kings-Lynne > Cc: William Carney; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Performance over a LAN > > > I don't think that's the advice being looked fo

Re: [PERFORM] Performance over a LAN

2004-07-22 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 23:50, William Carney wrote: > Hello, > > Using a test client application that performs 10 insert operations on a > table, with the client application running on the same machine as the > Postgres server, I get the following results for the time taken to run the > test: >

Re: [PERFORM] Performance over a LAN

2004-07-22 Thread Mark Aufflick
I don't think that's the advice being looked for here - if this behaviour is repeatable, then there is something askew with the inet protocol. What is the client application written in? Do you know what version of the postgres network protocol your driver code is using? Are the inserts ins

Re: [PERFORM] Performance over a LAN

2004-07-22 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
But with the server running on one machine and the client running on another, the two machines being connected by a 100 Mb ethernet, with nothing else on the network, this test takes 17 minutes to run. I have tried changing the frequency of COMMIT operations, but with only a small effect. Are you u

[PERFORM] Performance over a LAN

2004-07-22 Thread William Carney
Hello, Using a test client application that performs 10 insert operations on a table, with the client application running on the same machine as the Postgres server, I get the following results for the time taken to run the test: Unix domain socket connection: 26 seconds Inet domain socket ('