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From Andreas Karlsson
Subject Re: Proposal: backend "niceness" / session_priority
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In response to Re: Proposal: backend "niceness" / session_priority  (Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>)
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On 07/31/2015 12:18 AM, Jim Nasby wrote:
>> This has been proposed before, and rejected before, and I'm not seeing
>> anything particularly new here.  Without a credible mechanism for
>> throttling I/O, "nice" alone does not seem very promising.
>
> Some OSes respect nice when it comes to IO scheduling, so it might still
> be useful.

Wouldn't the bgwriter remove a lot of the usefulness?

Andreas

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