Re: [HACKERS] Bgwriter behavior

On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 22:21, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Should we consider at least adjusting the meaning of bgwriter_percent?

Yes. As things stand, this is the only change that seems safe.

Here's a very short patch that implements this change within BufferSync
in bufmgr.c

- No algorithm changes
- No error message changes
- Only change is the call to StrategyDirtyBufferList is made using the
maximum number of buffers that will be cleaned, rather than uselessly
trawling through all of shared_buffers

This changes the meaning of bgwriter_percent from "percent of dirty
buffers" to "percent of shared_buffers". The default settings of 1% of
1000 buffers gives up to 10 dirty block writes every 250ms

Benefit: allows performance tuning by increases options for setting
bgwriter_delay which would otherwise have an ineffectually high minimum
setting

Risk: low

1-line doc patch to follow, if this is approved.

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Best Regards, Simon Riggs