Re: Test request for Stats collector performance improvement

Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > OK, based on reports I have seen, generally stats_query_string adds 50%
> > to the total runtime of a "SELECT 1" query, and the patch reduces the
> > overhead to 25%.
> 
> that is actually not true for both of the platforms(a slow OpenBSD
> 3.9/x86 and a very fast Linux/x86_64) I tested on. Both of them show
> virtually no improvement with the patch and even worst it causes
> considerable (negative) variance on at least the Linux box.

I see the results I suggested on OpenBSD that you reported.

> OpenBSD 3.9-current/x86:
> 
> without stats:
>     0m6.79s real     0m1.56s user     0m1.12s system
> 
> -HEAD + stats:
>     0m10.44s real     0m2.26s user     0m1.22s system
> 
> -HEAD + stats + patch:
>     0m10.68s real     0m2.16s user     0m1.36s system

and I got similar results reported from a Debian:
Linux 2.6.16 on a single processor HT 2.8Ghz Pentium compiledwith gcc 4.0.4.
> > real        0m3.306s> > real        0m4.905s> > real        0m4.448s

I am unclear on the cuase for the widely varying results you saw in
Debian.

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