Re: Test lab

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 17:25 -0700, Mark Wong wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:20:27 -0400
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> > "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > > My question is -hackers, is who wants first bite and what do they
> > > want :) 
> > 
> > Something I'd like to have back real soon is the daily DBT run against
> > CVS HEAD that Mark Wong was doing at OSDL.  Maybe we don't need a
> > particularly enormous machine for that, but comparable runs day after
> > day are real nice for noting when patches had unexpected performance
> > impacts...
> 
> I expect the processors in this system to be faster than what I was using but this system does have about a third of
thenumber of spindles I had previously.  In my spare time I am trying to complete a TPC-E implementation (dbt5) to the
currentspec revision and it is supposed to have significantly less disk requirements than the TPC-C derivative (dbt2) I
wasusing in the past.  If we believe TPC-E achieved all its goals, I think it would be appropriate to start using that
assoon as the kit is ready.
 
> 
> Anyway want to help with the kit? :)  It's the C stored functions that need to be revised.

Mark,

Why don't you post a TODO list for TPC-E somewhere, so people can bite
small pieces off of the list. I'm sure there's lots of people can help
if we do it that way.

I'm more interested now in less disk-bound workloads, so TPC-E is good.

--  Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com