Re: Quality and Performance

On Nov 27, 2007 7:32 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> But a performance test machine
> probably needs to be dedicated to just that function. And at least some
> members of the performance test machines would need to be higher end
> machines. The number of people who can afford such resources is much
> lower than those who can run a relatively low impact simple buildfarm
> member.

As I already indicated it in another thread, we will dedicate 7
servers donated by Continuent to exactly that in a near future (they
are waiting in their boxes atm). So we will have dedicated boxes to
run benchmarks night & day. They will be accessible to the community
to set up as much benchmarks as necessary and I'll help to set up them
and make sure everything is OK.

They are not high end servers as the MyYearBook or Sun ones but they
are pretty decent. They are all i386 so we'll have to get other
clients but I think we can set up a variety of benchmarks to get them
busy and produce valuable results.

If we can get a benchmark client/results server infrastructure by the
end of january, it will be right on time.

I'm pretty sure all vendors of PostgreSQL are aware that a bench farm
is really important right now so I'm pretty sure we'll get more
servers if we can get something as easy to setup as the build farm.

--
Guillaume