Re: 9.5: Better memory accounting, towards memory-bounded HashAgg

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 9.5: Better memory accounting, towards memory-bounded HashAgg
Date: 2014-12-02 05:14:17
Message-ID: 1417497257.5584.5.camel@jeff-desktop
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Sun, 2014-11-30 at 17:49 -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> > I can also just move isReset there, and keep mem_allocated as a uint64.
> > That way, if I find later that I want to track the aggregated value for
> > the child contexts as well, I can split it into two uint32s. I'll hold
> > off any any such optimizations until I see some numbers from HashAgg
> > though.
>
> I took a quick look at memory-accounting-v8.patch.
>
> Is there some reason why mem_allocated is a uint64? All other things
> being equal, I'd follow the example of tuplesort.c's
> MemoryContextAllocHuge() API, which (following bugfix commit
> 79e0f87a1) uses int64 variables to track available memory and so on.

No reason. New version attached; that's the only change.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

Attachment Content-Type Size
memory-accounting-v9.patch text/x-patch 9.5 KB

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Michael Paquier 2014-12-02 06:42:23 Re: Proposal : REINDEX SCHEMA
Previous Message Etsuro Fujita 2014-12-02 02:59:41 Re: inherit support for foreign tables