Re: High context switches occurring - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: High context switches occurring
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Msg-id 29465.1135092483@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: High context switches occurring  (Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>)
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Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
> I still wondering with very poor performance of my server. Moving
> pgdata to RAID6 helped - about 600 tps. Then, I moved pg_xlog to separate
> disk and got strange error messages

> postgres@ptah:~$ time pgbench  -c 10  -t 3000 pgbench
> starting vacuum...end.
> Client 0 aborted in state 8: ERROR:  integer out of range
> Client 7 aborted in state 8: ERROR:  integer out of range

I've seen that too, after re-using an existing pgbench database enough
times.  I think that the way the test script is written, the adjustments
to the branch balances are always in the same direction, and so
eventually the fields overflow.  It's irrelevant to performance though.

            regards, tom lane

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