On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Well, one really can't know without testing, but memory copies are
> > extremely expensive if they go outside of the cache.
>
> Sure, but what about all the copying from write queue to page?
There's a pretty big difference between few-hundred-bytes-on-write and
eight-kilobytes-with-every-read memory copy.
As for the queue allocation, again, I have no data to back this up, but
I don't think it would be as bad as BufMgrLock. Not every page will have
a write queue, and a "hot" page is only going to get one once. (If a
page has a write queue, you might as well leave it with the page after
flushing it, and get rid of it only when the page leaves memory.)
I see the OS issues related to mapping that much memory as a much bigger
potential problem.
cjs
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