Re: [HACKERS] Postgres Speed or lack thereof

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Jan Wieck wrote:

> I wrote:
>
> >
> > I came to the same conclusion. So I continued with the
> > approach of bigger chunks handled in palloc(). What I have
> > now is something, that gains about 10% speedup at the
> > regression test, while memory consumption (visibly watched
> > with top(1)) seems not to raise compared against old version.
> >
> > Since the bigger blocks are built on top of the existing
> > memory context model, it would not conflict with any enhanced
> > usage we could make with it.
> >
> > I include a patch at the end - please comment.
> >
> >
> > Jan
>
> Did anyone play around with it? I've had it installed now for
> some days and it work's well so far.
>
> How close are we to v6.5 BETA? Should I apply it to CURRENT?

BETA starts upon Vadim's word...I'd say go for it...

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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