From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: autovacuum maintenance_work_mem |
Date: | 2010-11-27 19:04:43 |
Message-ID: | 201011271904.oARJ4hG17626@momjian.us |
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Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > I think the difficulty is figuring out what to get the existing
> > workers to give us some memory when a new one comes along. You want
> > the first worker to potentially use ALL the memory... until worker #2
> > arrives.
>
> Yeah, doing this would mean that you couldn't give worker #1 all the
> memory, because on most OSes it can't release the memory even if it
> wants to.
FYI, what normally happens in this case is that the memory is pushed to
swap by the kernel and never paged in from swap.
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