Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:00:37PM +0000, B. Estrade wrote:
> >I've mentioned this a couple of times, but postgresql didn't scale
> >well [on freebsd at least] when I tried it last year.  I hope to
> >revisit when I get time.
> 
> What other applications have you used to test the scalability?  Have
> you looked into utilizing OpenMP (available via intel compilers, which
> are free for private use) ?
> 
> http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/compilers/flin/282048.htm
> 
> I am not sure of the state of GCC's OpenMP implementation
> (http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/gomp/), but that might be more palatable
> to some.
> 
> It seems that there either exist OpenMP benchmarks for shared memory
> systems or ones could be easily be created for fully exercising (or
> maybe exorcising;) the system.  One thing is for sure, there are a lot
> of scientific applications out there written using OpenMP that might
> serve this purpose as well.

No, I've not looked at this.  I don't have any experience with this
system, but it might be a good project for someone to look into.

Kris