On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I've got a pair of 8 core opteron 16 drive machines I would like to test it on. If nothing else I'll just take queries from the log to run against an 8.4 install. It'll have to be late at night though... > If you are going to use pgbench to test, *please* read Greg Smith's notes > first: > http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/gregsmith/content/postgresql/pgbench-scaling.htm When I last used pgbench I wanted to test it with an extremely large dataset, but it maxes out at -s 4xxx or so, and that's only in the 40Gigabyte range. Is the limit raised for the pgbench included in contrib in 8.4? I'm guessing it's an arbitrary limit. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
