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+> 
+>  Sorry I haven't time to see and test your experiment,
+> but I have a question. How you solve memory management?
+> The current mmgr is based on global variable 
+> CurrentMemoryContext that is very often changed and used.
+>  Use you for this locks? If yes it is probably problematic
+> point for perfomance.
+> 
+> 			Karel
+> 
+
+There are many many globals I had to work around including all the memory
+management stuff.  I basically threw everything into and "environment"
+variable which I stored in a thread specific using thr_setspecific.
+
+Performance is acually very good for what I am doing.  I was able to batch
+commit transactions which cuts down on fsync calls, use prepared
+statements from my client using CORBA, and the various locking calls for
+the threads (cond_wait,mutex_lock, and sema_wait) seem pretty fast.  I did
+some performance tests for inserts 
+
+20 clients, 900 inserts per client, 1 insert per transaction, 4 different
+tables.
+
+7.0.2    About    10:52 average completion
+multi-threaded    2:42 average completion
+7.1beta3          1:13 average completion
+
+If I increased the number of inserts per transaction, multi-threaded got
+closer to 7.1 for inserts.  I haven't tested other other types of
+commands
+yet.
+
+
+Myron Scott
+mkscott@sacadia.com
+
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