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How to analyze PostgreSQL benchmark performance with HammerDB

HammerDB

The key findings of the article were as follows: This server had a HammerDB benchmark running against it. But why are we running a COPY operation during a benchmark anyway? So this COPY statement is coming from the schema build phase and not the HammerDB benchmark workload at all. and start the build running.

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Using Huge Pages with PostgreSQL Running Inside Kubernetes

Percona

Unfortunately, the performance in benchmarks is almost the same as for 4KB pages. Please check out the Why Linux HugePages are Super Important for Database Servers: A Case with PostgreSQL blog post for more information. Setup I recommend starting with 2MB huge pages because it’s trivial to set up. It’s easy with anydbver and k3d.

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HammerDB v4.3 New Features Pt1: Graphical Metrics for PostgreSQL

HammerDB

This enables the user to compare and contrast performance across different benchmark scenarios. shared_preload_libraries = 'pg_stat_statements,pgsentinel' track_activity_query_size=2048 pg_stat_statements.save=on pg_stat_statements.track=all pgsentinel_pgssh.enable = true pgsentinel_ash.pull_frequency = 1 pgsentinel_ash.max_entries = 1000000.

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Comparisons of Proxies for MySQL

Percona

MySQL router, after the 2048 connection, could not serve anything more. As you can see, and as I was expecting, the three Proxies were behaving more or less the same, serving the same number of operations (they were capped, so why not) until they weren’t. That allows it to go a bit further.

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Why does my SSD not issue 1MB IO’s?

n0derunner

Why do we tend to use 1MB IO sizes for throughput benchmarking? 8 Sectors = 4KB 128 Sectors = 64KB 1024 Sectors = 512KB 2048 Sectors = 1024KB (1MB). First things First. CDC 9762 SMD disk drive from 1974. Normally this is reported in “sectors” which are 512bytes in size. Using iostat.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

2000, and 2005 - replaced with SQLIOSim) ​​

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