Re: Time to up bgwriter_lru_maxpages?

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Time to up bgwriter_lru_maxpages?
Date: 2016-11-29 04:22:33
Message-ID: CAB7nPqThotkQx4BnTm8XgivjktF8PdoGzZrXLu8cDy0GJ7e2+w@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> wrote:
> On 11/28/16 11:53 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>
>> On 11/28/2016 11:40 AM, Jim Nasby wrote:
>>>
>>> With current limits, the most bgwriter can do (with 8k pages) is 1000
>>> pages * 100 times/sec = 780MB/s. It's not hard to exceed that with
>>> modern hardware. Should we increase the limit on bgwriter_lru_maxpages?
>>
>>
>> Considering a single SSD can do 70% of that limit, I would say yes.
>
>
> Next question becomes... should there even be an upper limit?

Looking at the log history the current default dates of cfeca621, it
would be time to raise the bar a little bit more. Even an utterly high
value could make sense for testing.
--
Michael

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