Re: Bgwriter behavior

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>>well, I usually get results that differ by that much from run to run.
>>Probably you ran in to more checkpoints on the second test.
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>>Also, did you reinitialize the bench database with pgbench -i ?
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>I destroyed the database and recreated it.
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The only way I managed to control the variability in Pgbench was to 
*reboot the machine* and recreate the database for each test. In 
addition it seems that using a larger scale factor (e.g 200) helped as well.

Having said that, on FreeBSD 5.3 with hw.ata.wc=0 (i.e no write cache) 
my results for s=200, t=10000 and c=4 were 49  (+/- 0.5) tps for both 
7.4.6 and 8.0.0RC1 - no measurable difference. If I  reduced the number 
of transactions to t=1000, then 7.4.6 jumped ahead by about 10 tps.

Bruce - are you able to try s=200? It would be interesting to see what 
your setup does.

regards

Mark