Re: Move unused buffers to freelist

On Friday, June 28, 2013 6:38 PM Robert Haas wrote:
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Currently it wakes up based on bgwriterdelay config parameter which is by
>>> default 200ms, so you means we should
>>> think of waking up bgwriter based on allocations and number of elements left
>>> in freelist?
>
>> I think that's what Andres and I are proposing, yes.

> Incidentally, I'm going to mark this patch Returned with Feedback in
>the CF application.

Many thanks to you and Andres for providing valuable suggestions.

>I think this line of inquiry has potential, but
>clearly there's a lot more work to do here before we commit anything,
>and I don't think that's going to happen in the next few weeks. But
>let's keep discussing.

Sure.

With Regards,
Amit Kapila.