Re: Scalability in postgres - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Scalability in postgres
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Msg-id 603c8f070906041907x59e014fu7f04bb8c67b8f9e9@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Scalability in postgres  (david@lang.hm)
Responses Re: Scalability in postgres  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
List pgsql-performance
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:51 PM, <david@lang.hm> wrote:
> if this is the case, how hard would it be to have threads add and remove
> themselves from some list as they get busy/become idle?
>
> I've been puzzled as I've been watching this conversation on what internal
> locking/lookup is happening that is causing the problems with idle threads
> (the pure memory overhead isn't enough to account for the problems that are
> being reported)

That's because this thread has altogether too much theory and
altogether too little gprof.  :-)

...Robert

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