From: Simon Riggs on
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 23:52 +0200, Erik Rijkers wrote:

> I'll try to repeat this pattern on other hardware; although
> if my tests were run with faulty hardware I wouldn't know how/why
> that would give the above effect (such a 'regular aberration').

> testing is more difficult than I thought...

Thanks again for your help.

Please can you confirm:
* Are the standby tests run while the primary is completely quiet?
* What OS is this? Can we use dtrace scripts?

Can anyone else confirm these test results: large scale factor and small
number of sessions?

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From: "Erik Rijkers" on
On Mon, April 26, 2010 08:52, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Erik Rijkers <er(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> FWIW, here are some more results from pgbench comparing
>> primary and standby (both with Simon's patch).
>
> Was there a difference in CPU utilization between the primary
> and standby?
>

I haven't monitored it..


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From: "Erik Rijkers" on
On Mon, April 26, 2010 09:43, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 23:52 +0200, Erik Rijkers wrote:
>
>> I'll try to repeat this pattern on other hardware; although
>> if my tests were run with faulty hardware I wouldn't know how/why
>> that would give the above effect (such a 'regular aberration').
>
>> testing is more difficult than I thought...
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> Please can you confirm:
> * Are the standby tests run while the primary is completely quiet?

autovacuum was on. Which is probably not a good idea - I'll try a few runs without it.

> * What OS is this? Can we use dtrace scripts?

Centos 5.4.



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From: Simon Riggs on
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 13:51 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(a)2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> > On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 13:33 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> If you like I'll have a go at rewriting the comments for this patch,
> >> because I am currently thinking that the problem is not so much with
> >> the code as with the poor explanation of what it's doing. Sometimes
> >> the author is too close to the code to understand why other people
> >> have a hard time understanding it.
>
> > That would help me, thank you.
>
> OK. You said you were currently working some more on the patch, so
> I'll wait for v3 and then work on it.

v3 attached

Changes:
* Strange locking in KnownAssignedXidsAdd() moved to RecordKnown...
* KnownAssignedXidsAdd() reordered, assert-ish code added
* Tail movement during snapshots no longer possible
* Tail movement during xid removal added to KnownAssignedXidsSearch()
* Major comment hacking

Little bit rough, definitely needs a re-read of all comments, so good
time to send over.

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From: Tom Lane on
Simon Riggs <simon(a)2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> v3 attached

Thanks, will work on this tomorrow.

regards, tom lane

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