Re: LWLock contention: I think I understand the problem

Hannu Krosing wrote:
> 
> 
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> >Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> >>Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> writes:
> >>
> >>>Ok, here is a pgbench (-s 10) result on an AIX 5L box (4 way).
> >>>"7.2 with patch" is for the previous patch. "7.2 with patch (revised)"
> >>>is for the this patch. I see virtually no improvement.
> >>>
> >>If anything, the revised patch seems to make things slightly worse :-(.
> >>That agrees with my measurement on a single CPU.
> >>
> >>I am inclined to use the revised patch anyway, though, because I think
> >>it will be less prone to starvation (ie, a process repeatedly being
> >>awoken but failing to get the lock).  The original form of lwlock.c
> >>guaranteed that a writer could not be locked out by large numbers of
> >>readers, but I had to abandon that goal in the first version of the
> >>patch.  The second version still doesn't keep the writer from being
> >>blocked by active readers, but it does ensure that readers queued up
> >>behind the writer won't be released.  Comments?
> >>
> >
> >OK, so now we know that while the new lock code handles the select(1)
> >problem better, we also know that on AIX the old select(1) code wasn't
> >as bad as we thought.
> >
> >As to why we don't see better numbers on AIX, we are getting 100tps,
> >which seems pretty good to me.  Tatsuo, were you expecting higher than
> >100tps on that machine?  My hardware is at listed at
> >http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/hardware.html and I don't get over 16tps.
> >
> What scaling factor do you use ?
> What OS ?
> 
> I got from ~40 tps for -s 128 up to 50-230 tps for -s 1 or 10 on dual 
> PIII 800 on IDE
> disk (Model=IBM-DTLA-307045) with hdparm -t the following

Scale 50, transactions 1000, clients 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, all around 15tps.

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