Re: Speed up Clog Access by increasing CLOG buffers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Speed up Clog Access by increasing CLOG buffers
Date
Msg-id 20160323204341.GB4686@awork2.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Speed up Clog Access by increasing CLOG buffers  (Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Speed up Clog Access by increasing CLOG buffers
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On 2016-03-23 12:33:22 +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I think it's worthwhile to create a benchmark that does something like
> > > BEGIN;SELECT ... FOR UPDATE; SELECT pg_sleep(random_time);
> > > INSERT;COMMIT; you'd find that if random is a bit larger (say 20-200ms,
> > > completely realistic values for network RTT + application computation),
> > > the success rate of group updates shrinks noticeably.
> > >
> >
> > Will do some tests based on above test and share results.
> >
> 
> Forgot to mention that the effect of patch is better visible with unlogged
> tables, so will do the test with those and request you to use same if you
> yourself is also planning to perform some tests.

I'm playing around with SELECT txid_current(); right now - that should
be about the most specific load for setting clog bits.

Andres



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