Re: [PERFORM] 8.3beta1 testing on Solaris - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [PERFORM] 8.3beta1 testing on Solaris
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Msg-id 29721.1193359867@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: 8.3beta1 testing on Solaris  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: [PERFORM] 8.3beta1 testing on Solaris  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Re: [PERFORM] 8.3beta1 testing on Solaris  ("Jignesh K. Shah" <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM>)
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Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Didn't we already go through this? He and Simon were pushing to bump up
> NUM_CLOG_BUFFERS and you were arguing that the test wasn't representative and
> some other clog.c would have to be reengineered to scale well to larger
> values.

AFAIR we never did get any clear explanation of what the test case is.
I guess it must be write-mostly, else lazy XID assignment would have
helped this by reducing the rate of XID consumption.

It's still true that I'm leery of a large increase in the number of
buffers without reengineering slru.c.  That code was written on the
assumption that there were few enough buffers that a linear search
would be fine.  I'd hold still for 16, or maybe even 32, but I dunno
how much impact that will have for such a test case.

            regards, tom lane

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