marcus heckel: Benchmarking Guy

A quick bio is in order I suppose. I joined Suns Strategic Applications Engineering Group back in 2000 as a Sys Admin. Since that time I have moved on to be a Benchmark Engineer with my focus being commercial workloads on Suns mid range and high end Sparc based servers. The end results are to produce (among other things) world record benchmarking results. Of course working at Sun allows me to do some of the other things I enjoy in life, such as trying to hit little white golf balls, attempting to navigate hills with slick white power (sometimes ice) on them, and trying my hand at cycling.

One of the areas of focus for me recently has been Postgres performance analysis. To that end, a colleague of mine (Glenn Fawcett) and I have developed a presentation for this years CEC that shows how to obtain performance statistics, and what frameworks that are pre-existing to help obtain this information. In addition, we attempt to relate it to gathering performance data within Oracle, and ask/answer some of the more common questions we see related to database performance. What is the throughput? What is the response time? What resources are being consumed?

If you have an interest in that kind of stuff, Feel free to download and check it out