From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: proposal: Set effective_cache_size to greater of .conf value, shared_buffers |
Date: | 2014-05-07 14:40:02 |
Message-ID: | CA+U5nMLf2AYe0VRNdEC+8gqoP20LQHfQUBUCGH9=DVe-qPO09A@mail.gmail.com |
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On 7 May 2014 15:07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> I think I'm arguing myself towards using a BufferAccessStrategy of
>> BAS_BULKREAD for large IndexScans, BitMapIndexScans and
>> BitMapHeapScans.
>
> As soon as you've got some hard evidence to present in favor of such
> changes, we can discuss it. I've got other things to do besides
> hypothesize.
Now we have a theory to test, I'll write a patch and we can collect
evidence for, or against.
> In the meantime, it seems like there is an emerging consensus that nobody
> much likes the existing auto-tuning behavior for effective_cache_size,
> and that we should revert that in favor of just increasing the fixed
> default value significantly. I see no problem with a value of say 4GB;
> that's very unlikely to be worse than the pre-9.4 default (128MB) on any
> modern machine.
>
> Votes for or against?
+1 for fixed 4GB and remove the auto-tuning code.
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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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