Re: checkpointer continuous flushing

From: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: checkpointer continuous flushing
Date: 2015-09-10 04:50:11
Message-ID: CAMkU=1w+_kzcjO9tpnAWP6q-9QSs0JmT0JijtWDRanmH-uUerw@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> On 2015-09-09 20:56:15 +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> > As I wrote before, FreeBSD would be a good candidate because the
> > posix_fadvise seems much more reasonable than on Linux, and should be
> > profitable, so it would be a pity to remove it.
>
> Why do you think it's different on fbsd? Also, why is it unreasonable
> that DONNEED removes stuff from the cache?
>

It seems kind of silly that it means "No one, even people I am not aware of
and have no right to speak for, needs this" as opposed to "I don't need
this, don't keep it around on my behalf."

Cheers,

Jeff

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