Re: Performance features the 4th

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Performance features the 4th
Date: 2003-11-09 22:51:21
Message-ID: 3FAEC4E9.9010707@bigfoot.com
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Tom Lane wrote:

> Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
>
>>However, I have not seen much evidence yet that the vacuum delay alone
>>does that much.
>
>
> Gaetano and a couple of other people did experiments that seemed to show
> it was useful. I think we'd want to change the shape of the knob per
> later suggestions (sleep 10 ms every N blocks, instead of N ms every
> block) but it did seem that there was useful bang for little buck there.

Right, I'd like to try know the patch: "sleep N ms every M blocks".
Can you please post this patch ?

BTW, I'll see if I'm able to apply it also to a 7.3.X ( our production
DB).

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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