Re: Estimating HugePages Requirements? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Estimating HugePages Requirements?
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In response to Re: Estimating HugePages Requirements?  ("Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>)
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 2:49 PM Bossart, Nathan <bossartn@amazon.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I agree.  What about
> huge_pages_needed_for_shared_memory_size or
> huge_pages_needed_for_main_shared_memory?  I'm still not stoked about
> using "required" or "needed" in the name, as it sounds like huge pages
> must be allocated for the server to run, which is only true if
> huge_pages=on.  I haven't thought of a better word to use, though.

I prefer the first of those to the second. I don't find it
particularly better or worse than my previous suggestion of
shared_memory_size_in_huge_pages.

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com



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