On 2013-12-04 20:19:55 +0200, Metin Doslu wrote: > - When we increased NUM_BUFFER_PARTITIONS to 1024, this problem is > disappeared for 8 core machines and come back with 16 core machines on > Amazon EC2. Would it be related with PostgreSQL locking mechanism? You could try my lwlock-scalability improvement patches - for some workloads here, the improvements have been rather noticeable. Which version are you testing? Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
