Re: CLOG contention, part 2

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> So please use a scale factor that the hardware can cope with.
>
> OK.  I tested this out on Nate Boley's 32-core AMD machine, using
> scale factor 100 and scale factor 300. I initialized it with Simon's
> patch, which should have the effect of rendering the entire table
> unhinted and giving each row a different XID.

Thanks for making the test.

I think this tells me the only real way to do this kind of testing is
not at arms length from a test machine.

So time to get my hands on a machine, but not for this release.

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