Re: 8.0.X and the ARC patent

I was just looking at the config parameters, and you have the shared 
buffers set to 60k, and the effective cache set to 1k ????

Dave

Mark Wong wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:17:07PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>Mark Wong <markw@osdl.org> writes:
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>>>On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 04:57:11PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>>>Curious.  The immediate question is "does it ever flatten out, and
>>>>if so at what TPM rate compared to 8.0.1?"  Could you run the same
>>>>test for a longer duration?
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>>>The comparison was against 8.0.1, or did you mean 8.0.1 with the 2Q
>>>patch?  I can run a longer duration and see how it looks.
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>>My point was that unpatched 8.0.1 seems to have a pretty level TPM
>>rate.  If the patched version levels out at something not far below
>>that, I'll be satisfied.  If it continues to degrade then I won't be
>>satisfied ... but the test stops short of telling what will happen.
>>If you could run it for 2 hours then we'd probably know enough.
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>Ah, ok.  I've reapplied the 2Q patch to CVS from 20050301:
>    http://www.osdl.org/projects/dbt2dev/results/dev4-010/313/
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>I ran it for 3 hours, just in case, and the charts suggest it flattens
>out after 2 hours.
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>Mark
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