Re: CLOG contention

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: CLOG contention
Date: 2012-01-05 19:34:55
Message-ID: CAHyXU0zT2VSVLZBLRGF+dpjjonA8T6Y1qSSQ7geCr4dcbsxOtA@mail.gmail.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> Let's commit the change to 32.
>
> I would like to do that, but I think we need to at least figure out a
> way to provide an escape hatch for people without much shared memory.
> We could do that, perhaps, by using a formula like this:
>
> 1 CLOG buffer per 128MB of shared_buffers, with a minimum of 8 and a
> maximum of 32

The assumption that machines that need this will have gigabytes of
shared memory set is not valid IMO.

merlin

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Simon Riggs 2012-01-05 19:39:22 Re: CLOG contention
Previous Message Robert Haas 2012-01-05 19:26:44 Re: CLOG contention