Pavel Stehule escribió:
> 2010/3/11 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> > Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> >> The problem is in very large small allocations - there are 853215 nodes.
> >> I replaced palloc0 inside mkSPnode by balloc
> >
> > This goes back to the idea we've discussed from time to time of having a
> > variant memory context type in which pfree() is a no-op and we dispense
> > with all the per-chunk overhead. I guess that if there really isn't any
> > overhead there then pfree/repalloc would actually crash :-( but for the
> > particular case of dictionaries that would probably be OK because
> > there's so little code that touches them.
>
> it has a sense. I was surprised how much memory is necessary :(. Some
> smarter allocation save 50% - 2.5G for 100 users, what is important,
> but I thing, so these data has to be shared. I believed to preloading,
> but it is problematic - there are no data in shared preload time, and
> the allocated size is too big.
Could it be mmapped and shared that way?
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