Re: SLRU optimization - configurable buffer pool and partitioning the SLRU lock - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 11:22 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> Still with these auto-tuning GUCs, I noticed that the auto-tuning code
> would continue to grow the buffer sizes with shared_buffers to
> arbitrarily large values.  I added an arbitrary maximum of 1024 (8 MB),
> which is much higher than the current value of 128; but if you have
> (say) 30 GB of shared_buffers (not uncommon these days), do you really
> need 30MB of pg_clog cache?  It seems mostly unnecessary ... and you can
> still set it manually that way if you need it.  So, largely I just
> rewrote those small functions completely.

Yeah, I think that if we're going to scale with shared_buffers, it
should be capped.

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Robert Haas
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