Re: Huge backend memory footprint - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Huge backend memory footprint
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Msg-id 20171222132102.egeawa3sszrtazv2@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Huge backend memory footprint  (Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>)
Responses Re: Huge backend memory footprint  (Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>)
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Hi,

On 2017-12-22 16:07:23 +0300, Konstantin Knizhnik wrote:
> While my experiments with pthreads version of Postgres I find out that I can
> not create more than 100k backends even at the system with 4Tb of RAM.

I don't think this is a problem we need to address at this point. Would
you care to argue otherwise?

For now we've so much more relevant limitations, e.g. the O(N)
complexity of computing a snapshot, that I think addressing these
concerns is a waste of time at this point.

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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