Re: Test lab

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 10:42 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> The test lab is finally starting to come to fruition. We (the
> community) have been donated hardware via MyYearbook and Hi5. It is my
> understanding that we may also have some coming from HP.
> 
> We are currently setting up a Trac for management and publishing of
> results etc... I have also spoken with Mark Wong and he is going to be
> helping with DBT and such. 
> 
> The first machine we are going to have up and have ready access to is a
> HP DL 585. It has 8 cores (Opteron), 32GB of ram and 28 spindles over 4
> channels.
> 
> My question is -hackers, is who wants first bite and what do they
> want :) 

I'll take a few slots, probably 3 x 1 days, at least a week apart. Won't
be able to start before 19th Nov.

I want to look at scaling issues on some isolated workloads on in-memory
databases, as well as WAL writing. I'll generate the data directly on
the system.

Any chance we can validate the I/O config and publish bonnie results
first, please? 

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