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Subject2.5.59mm5 database 'benchmark' results

Hi Nick, Andrew, lists,

I've been testing some recent kernels to see how they compare with a
particular database workload. The workload is actually part of our
production process (last months run) but on a test server. I'll describe
the platform and the workload, but first, the results :-)

kernel minutes comment
------------- ----------- ---------------------------------
2.4.20-aa1 134 i consider this 'baseline'
2.5.59 124 woo-hoo
2.4.18-19.7.xsmp 128 not bad for frankenstein's montster
2.5.59-mm5 157 uh-oh

Platform:
HP LH3000 U3. Dual 866 Mhz Intel Pentium III, 2GB ram. megaraid
controller with two channels, each channel raid 5 PV on 6 15k scsi disks,
one megaraid LV per PV.

Two plain disks w/pairs of partitions in raid 1 for OS (redhat 7.3), a
second pair for Oracle redo-log (in a log 'group').

Oracle version 8.1.7 (no aio support in this release) is accessing
datafiles on the two megaraid devices via /dev/raw stacked on top of
device-mapper

Workload:
The workload consists of a few different phases.

1) Indexing: multiple indexes built against a 9 million row table. This
is mostly about sequential scans of a single table, with bursts of write
activity. 50 minutes or so.

2) Analyzing: The database scans tables and
builds statistics. Most of the time is spent analyzing the 9 million row
table. This is a completely cpu bound step on our underpowered system.
30 minutes.

3) Summarization: the large table is aggregated in about 100
different ways. Records are generated for each different summarization.
This is mixed read-write load. 50 minutes or so.

I'll test any kernel you throw my way.

David



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