Re: [HACKERS] Time to up bgwriter_lru_maxpages? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2016-11-28 11:40:53 -0800, Jim Nasby wrote:
> With current limits, the most bgwriter can do (with 8k pages) is 1000 pages
> * 100 times/sec = 780MB/s. It's not hard to exceed that with modern
> hardware. Should we increase the limit on bgwriter_lru_maxpages?

FWIW, I think working on replacing bgwriter (e.g. by working on the
patch I send with a POC replacement) wholesale is a better approach than
spending time increasing limits.

- Andres