pgsql: Increase default maintenance_io_concurrency to 16

From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Increase default maintenance_io_concurrency to 16
Date: 2025-03-18 13:08:47
Message-ID: E1tuWgZ-0035xZ-0x@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Increase default maintenance_io_concurrency to 16

Since its introduction in fc34b0d9de27a, the default
maintenance_io_concurrency has been larger than the default
effective_io_concurrency. maintenance_io_concurrency primarily
controlled prefetching done on behalf of the whole system, for
operations like recovery. Therefore it makes sense for it to have a
value equal to or greater than effective_io_concurrency, which controls
I/O concurrency for reading a relation in a bitmap heap scan.

ff79b5b2ab increased effective_io_concurrency to 16, so we'll increase
maintenance_io_concurrency as well. For now, though, we'll keep the
defaults of effective_io_concurrency and maintenance_io_concurrency
equal to one another (16).

On fast, high IOPs systems, significantly higher values of
maintenance_io_concurrency are observably beneficial [1]. However, such
values would flood low IOPs systems and increase overall system I/O
latency.

It is worth mentioning that since 9256822608f and c3e775e608f,
maintenance_io_concurrency also controls the I/O concurrency of each
vacuum worker. Since many autovacuum workers may be simultaneously
issuing I/Os, we want to keep maintenance_io_concurrency appropriately
conservative.

[1] https://postgr.es/m/c5d52837-6256-0556-ac8c-d6d3d558820a%40enterprisedb.com

Suggested-by: Jakub Wartak <jakub(dot)wartak(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKZiRmxdHQaU%2B2Zpe6d%3Dx%3D0vigJ1sfWwwVYLJAf%3Dud_wQ_VcUw%40mail.gmail.com

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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/cc6be07ebde2aef7cc0507f997f563ce77c00a00

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 8 ++++----
src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample | 2 +-
src/include/storage/bufmgr.h | 2 +-
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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