PostgreSQL performance on FreeBSD

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi!


On 16 July 2014 06:29, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 03:56:13PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I did some measurements and hacks to see about the performance and
>> scalability of PostgreSQL 9.3 on FreeBSD, sponsored by The FreeBSD
>> Foundation.
>>
>> The results are described in https://kib.kiev.ua/kib/pgsql_perf.pdf.
>> The uncommitted patches, referenced in the article, are available as
>> https://kib.kiev.ua/kib/pig1.patch.txt
>> https://kib.kiev.ua/kib/patch-2
>
> A followup to the original paper.
>
> Most importantly, I identified the cause for the drop on the graph
> after the 30 clients, which appeared to be the debugging version
> of malloc(3) in libc.
>
> Also there are some updates on the patches.
>
> New version of the paper is available at
> https://www.kib.kiev.ua/kib/pgsql_perf_v2.0.pdf
> The changes are marked as 'update for version 2.0'.

Would you mind trying a default (non-PRODUCTION) build, but with junk
filling turned off?

adrian at adrian-hackbox:~ % ls -l /etc/malloc.conf

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  10 Jun 24 04:37 /etc/malloc.conf -> junk:false

That fixes almost all of the malloc debug performance issues that I
see without having to recompile.

I'd like to know if you see any after that.

Thanks!



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