Re: Bgwriter LRU cleaning: we've been going at this all wrong - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Bgwriter LRU cleaning: we've been going at this all wrong
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Msg-id 19037.1182957462@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Bgwriter LRU cleaning: we've been going at this all wrong  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> If we find it's overkill then what we should consider doing is raising
> BM_MAX_USAGE_COUNT. That's effectively tuning the percentage of the lru chain
> that we decide we try to keep clean.

Yeah, I don't believe anyone has tried to do performance testing for
different values of BM_MAX_USAGE_COUNT.  It would be interesting to
try that after all the dust settles.
        regards, tom lane


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