Re: Cost of XLogInsert CRC calculations

Hi Tom,

> I was profiling a case involving UPDATEs into a table with too many
indexes (brought to > mind by mysql's sql-bench, about which more later) and
got this rather surprising result > for routines costing more than 1% of the
total runtime:

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> I suppose that the bulk of the CPU cycles being attributed to XLogInsert
are going into > the inlined CRC calculations. Maybe we need to think twice
about the cost/benefit ratio > of using 64-bit CRCs to protect xlog records
that are often only a few dozen bytes.

Wow, a 64-bit CRC does seem excessive, especially when going back to Zmodem
days where a 50-100k file seemed to be easily protected by a 32-bit CRC. I'm
sure there are some error rates somewhere dependent upon the polynomial and
the types of error detected.... Try the following link towards the bottom:
http://www.ee.unb.ca/tervo/ee4253/crc.htm for some theory on detection rates
vs. CRC size.

Kind regards,

Mark.

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