Re: [PERFORM] Looking for bottleneck during load test

2008-04-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Hell, Robert wrote: > I tried different other tools for random IO (including a self written one > which does random lseek and read). > > This tool, started during one of our tests, achieves 2 iops (8k each). > Started alone I get something about 1,500 iops with an avg latency of 100 ms. 1500 iop

Re: [PERFORM] Looking for bottleneck during load test

2008-04-08 Thread Hell, Robert
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivan Voras Sent: Dienstag, 08. April 2008 11:03 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Looking for bottleneck during load test Hell, Robert wrote: > > I tried different other tools for random IO (including a self written one which does random lse

Re: [PERFORM] Looking for bottleneck during load test

2008-04-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Hell, Robert wrote: > > I tried different other tools for random IO (including a self written one which does random lseek and read). > > > > This tool, started during one of our tests, achieves 2 iops (8k each). > > Started alone I get something about 1,500 iops with an avg latency of 100 ms. 1500

Re: [PERFORM] Looking for bottleneck during load test

2008-04-07 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Bill Moran wrote: > > > You know, with all the performance problems people have been bringing up > > with regard to SANs, I'm putting SAN in the same category as RAID-5 ... > > Not really fair, because unlike RAID5 it's at leas

Re: [PERFORM] Looking for bottleneck during load test

2008-04-07 Thread Greg Smith
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Bill Moran wrote: You know, with all the performance problems people have been bringing up with regard to SANs, I'm putting SAN in the same category as RAID-5 ... Not really fair, because unlike RAID5 it's at least *possible* to get good write performance out of a SAN. Ju

Re: [PERFORM] Looking for bottleneck during load test

2008-04-07 Thread Bill Moran
x27;m putting SAN in the same category as RAID-5 ... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivan Voras > Sent: Montag, 07. April 2008 14:38 > To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Looking for bottleneck during load test &

Re: [PERFORM] Looking for bottleneck during load test

2008-04-07 Thread Hell, Robert
) - are those ~7 MB/s really our bottleneck? Any other tuning ideas? Regards, Robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivan Voras Sent: Montag, 07. April 2008 14:38 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Looking for

Re: [PERFORM] Looking for bottleneck during load test

2008-04-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Hell, Robert wrote: > We have a PostgreSQL 8.2.7 database (~230 GB) running on a machine with 8 > Intel Xeon Cores and 32 GB RAM (64-bit Linux 2.6.18). Data is stored on an > EMC² CLARiiON on RAID 1/0 (8 x 146 GB 15k rpm). > When we do random I/O with a small test tool (reading random 8k blocks