Re: Clock sweep not caching enough B-Tree leaf pages? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Clock sweep not caching enough B-Tree leaf pages?
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In response to Re: Clock sweep not caching enough B-Tree leaf pages?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Clock sweep not caching enough B-Tree leaf pages?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Re: Clock sweep not caching enough B-Tree leaf pages?  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> I am glad you are looking at this.  You are right that it requires a
> huge amount of testing, but clearly our code needs improvement in this
> area.

Thanks.

Does anyone recall the original justification for the recommendation
that shared_buffers never exceed 8GiB? I'd like to revisit the test
case, if such a thing exists.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan



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