Re: Clock sweep not caching enough B-Tree leaf pages?

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Mitsumasa KONDO <kondo(dot)mitsumasa(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Clock sweep not caching enough B-Tree leaf pages?
Date: 2014-04-17 18:55:51
Message-ID: CAM3SWZRpZDSutA4AgwPEAcvAGWYeem+WQRozfU5AWPx9WH7cNw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> No. but if you were very judicious, maybe you could hint the o/s
> (posix_fadvise) about pages that are likely to stay hot that you don't
> need them.

Mitsumasa KONDO wrote a patch like that. I don't think the results
were that promising, but things change quickly.

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Peter Geoghegan

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