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 does not 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 not boot 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 kernel version 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? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance