[Lse-tech] Transaction procesing benchmark

[Mike K. <mkr...@se...>]

FYI,

I recently ran a transaction processing benchmark on a Sequent
'Quad':  4 Pentium Pro 180MHz processors, 1GB memory.  The system
was running the a 2.4-test4 kernel with Rik van Riel's recent
VM patches.  Database software was DB2 version v6.1.

I have attached a copy kernel profile output during this run.
Data seems to suggest that scheduler changes would be beneficial.

Note that I am not a database person.  Therefore, no tuning was
performed to optimize DB performance.  I simply used an existing
kit as an interesting workload.

Regards,
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Mike Kravetz                                 mkr...@se...
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