Hi,
The x86 mac VMs from cirrus-ci claim to have 12 CPUs, but when working on
initdb caching for tests I noticed that using all those CPUs for tests hurts
the test times noticably.
See [1] (note that the overall time is influenced by different degrees of
cache hit ratios):
concurrency test time:
4 05:58
6 05:09
8 04:58
10 05:58
12 (current) 06:58
There's a fair bit of run-to-run variance, but the rough shape of these
looks repeatable.
I suspect the VMs might be overcommitted a fair bit - or macos just scales
poorly. Cirrus-ci apparently is switching to M1 based macs, which could be
related. It'd be good for us do that switch, as it'd give use ARM coverage for
CI / cfbot. See also [3].
In 15 (and thus autoconf) the timings differ a bit less [2]:
concurrency test time:
4 06:54
6 05:43
8 06:09
10 06:01
12 (current) 06:38
Looks like changing TEST_JOBS=6 or 8 would be a good idea.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
[1] https://cirrus-ci.com/build/5254074546257920
[2] https://cirrus-ci.com/task/4888800445857792
[3] https://postgr.es/m/CAN55FZ2R%2BXufuVgJ8ew_yDBk48PgXEBvyKNvnNdTTVyczbQj0g%40mail.gmail.com