Re: Move unused buffers to freelist

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. 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.

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