Re: OSDL DBT-2 w/ PostgreSQL 7.3.4 and 7.4beta5

Mark Wong wrote:

>On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 10:29:34PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
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>>Mark Wong wrote:
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>>>Yeah, my dbt2 applications are multithreaded.
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>>Do you need SIGPIPE delivery in your app? If no, could you try what 
>>happens if you apply the attached patch to postgres, and perform the
>>    signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
>>once in your dbt2 app?
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>Wow, that patch made a pretty big difference:
>    http://developer.osdl.org/markw/dbt2-pgsql/191/
>    - metric 1605.51
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>So no one has to look for older mail before I applied that patch:
>    http://developer.osdl.org/markw/dbt2-pgsql/190/
>    - metric 1427.24
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>Looks like about a 12% improvement in the overall metric.  The first thing I
>noticed is that do_sigaction in the kernel profile almost disappeared.
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Cool.

>  The
>top few functions in the database profile doesn't appear to have changed much.
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I've looked at the profile:
The only unusal line is the memcpy(cur_skey, cache->cc_skey, 
sizeof(cur_skey)): it copies 144 byte and needs ~5.3% global cpu time, 
from the 12.1% in SearchCatCache. The cachelines (line size 128 bytes) 
of cc_skey are shared with cc_bucket. 1.8% cpu time is spent in 
DLMoveToFront, the function that moves cache entries around.

Perhaps a scalability problem of the hash table? The implementation 
moves the entries around all the time, i.e. the worst case for cache 
line transfers.

--   Manfred