Re: adding support for posix_fadvise() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: adding support for posix_fadvise()
Date
Msg-id 1067890989.3089.540.camel@tokyo
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In response to Re: adding support for posix_fadvise()  (Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>)
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On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 14:24, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Neil: what about calling posix_fadvise for the whole file immediately 
> after issue_xlog_fsync() in XLogWrite? According to the comment, it's 
> guaranteed that this will happen only once.
> Or:  add an posix_fadvise into issue_xlog_fsync(), for the range just 
> sync'ed.

I'll try those, in case it makes any difference. My guess/hope is that
it won't (as mentioned earlier), but we'll see.

> Btw, how much xlog traffic does a busy postgres site generate?

No idea. Can anyone recommend what kind of benchmark would be be
appropriate?

-Neil




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