Re: Move unused buffers to freelist - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Move unused buffers to freelist
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Msg-id CA+TgmoZHTCRAJMbR4BoAQfaFBYLZFO8ceQ4miv7sHKrGgyMQqw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Move unused buffers to freelist  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com> wrote:
>> Currently it wakes up based on bgwriterdelay config parameter which is by
>> default 200ms, so you means we should
>> think of waking up bgwriter based on allocations and number of elements left
>> in freelist?
>
> I think that's what Andres and I are proposing, yes.

Incidentally, I'm going to mark this patch Returned with Feedback in
the CF application.  I think this line of inquiry has potential, but
clearly there's a lot more work to do here before we commit anything,
and I don't think that's going to happen in the next few weeks.  But
let's keep discussing.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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