PostgreSQL 9.3 benchmarks

[Samuel J. Greear]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:06 AM, John Marino <dragonflybsd at marino.st>wrote:

> On 3/12/2014 16:42, Freddie Cash wrote:
> > Every 6-8 months or so, someone benchmarks PostgreSQL on FreeBSD,
> > usually on massively-multi-core machines (32+ cores/threads).  And those
> > graphs almost always show increases in performance with each release of
> > FreeBSD (default install), and larger increases with small changes to
> > sysctls and PostgreSQL config.
> >
> > Searching through the archives for the -stable and/or -current mailing
> > lists should pull up the configuration details.
> >
> > This Google search shows several threads from 2011, 2012, and 2013 on
> > this subject (including graphs comparing FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, and
> Linux):
> > https://www.google.ca/search?q=freebsd+postgresql+benchmark
> >
> > --
>
> Okay, I so followed your link and picked this one from the search results:
> http://www.bsdcan.org/2013/schedule/attachments/242_BenchmarkingFreeBSD.pdf
>
> So that's 2013, and clearly tons of good work has gone into producing
> the slide deck.
>
> However, it's a 4-core machine he used.  It seems to me that this
> hardware is apples to oranges to what Francois used.  Am I wrong?  Is
> there a better, more recent benchmark from FreeBSD with a more
> comparable machine?
>
> John
>

John, you are not wrong, multi-socket hardware is a completely and totally
different animal.

Sam
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20140312/ad2e2a84/attachment-0002.html>