On 02/13/2013 11:24 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 02/12/2013 05:28 PM, Dan Kogan wrote:
>> Hi Will,
>>
>> Yes, I think we've seen some discussions on that. Our servers our hosted on Amazon Ec2 and upgrading the kernel
doesnot seem so straight forward.
>> We did a benchmark using pgbench on 3.5 vs 3.2 and saw an improvement. Unfortunately our production server would
notboot off 3.5 so we had to revert back to 3.2.
>>
>> At this point we are contemplating whether it's better to go back to 11.04 or upgrade to 12.10 (which comes with
kernelversion 3.5).
>> Any thoughts on that would be appreciated.
>
> I have a machine running the same version of Ubuntu. I'll run some
> tests and tell you what I find.
So I'm running a pgbench. However, I don't really have anything to
compare the stats I'm seeing. CPU usage and load average was high (load
7.9), but that was on -j 8 -c 32, with a TPS of 8500.
What numbers are you seeing, exactly?
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