Re: Time to up bgwriter_lru_maxpages?

On 2/3/17 7:34 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2017-02-03 19:26:55 -0600, Jim Nasby wrote:
>> On 2/3/17 6:20 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>>>> - The ringbuffers in shared buffers can be problematic. One possible way of
>>>> solving that is to get rid of ringbuffers entirely and rely on different
>>>> initial values for usage_count instead, but that's not desirable if it just
>>>> means more clock sweep work for backends.
>>> I'm not quite sure which ringbuffer you're referring to here? If to the
>>> new one, why is it problematic?
>>
>> No, I mean the non-default BufferAccessStrategy's.
>
> That's not a ringbuffer that's a buffer ring ;)

In my defense, there's at least one mention of 'ring buffer' in
storage/buffers. I thought there were more.

Yet more reason to just get rid of them ;P
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