Greg Smith <greg <at> 2ndquadrant.com> writes: > You're probably running into this problem: > http://notemagnet.blogspot.com/2008/05/pgbench-suffering-with-linux-2623-2626.html You are so right. The last thing I would have suspected is a kernel bug. I am definitely going to try to be more aware of kernel happenings from now on. Thank you! -bash-3.2$ uname -a Linux devpgre 2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:06:21 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -bash-3.2$ pgbench -c 1 -S -t 400000 -h localhost test starting vacuum...end. transaction type: SELECT only scaling factor: 64 number of clients: 1 number of transactions per client: 400000 number of transactions actually processed: 400000/400000 tps = 10716.907529 (including connections establishing) tps = 10717.650674 (excluding connections establishing) -bash-3.2$ pgbench -c 2 -S -t 400000 -h localhost test starting vacuum...end. transaction type: SELECT only scaling factor: 64 number of clients: 2 number of transactions per client: 400000 number of transactions actually processed: 800000/800000 tps = 14355.737471 (including connections establishing) tps = 14356.991106 (excluding connections establishing) -bash-3.2$ pgbench -c 3 -S -t 400000 -h localhost test starting vacuum...end. transaction type: SELECT only scaling factor: 64 number of clients: 3 number of transactions per client: 400000 number of transactions actually processed: 1200000/1200000 tps = 19068.715403 (including connections establishing) tps = 19070.958268 (excluding connections establishing) -bash-3.2$ pgbench -c 4 -S -t 400000 -h localhost test starting vacuum...end. transaction type: SELECT only scaling factor: 64 number of clients: 4 number of transactions per client: 400000 number of transactions actually processed: 1600000/1600000 tps = 22951.995256 (including connections establishing) tps = 22955.104092 (excluding connections establishing) -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general