| From: | "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Siddharth Shah" <siddharth(dot)shah(at)elitecore(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Effect of stopped status collector process |
| Date: | 2008-11-26 02:37:34 |
| Message-ID: | b42b73150811251837xb23b201w22021224550f5e26@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> If you are willing to run a hand-hacked version then I'd suggest doing
>> your experimentation with CVS HEAD. There are changes in place already
>> to reduce the stats file traffic.
>
> Why do we _have_ to write the file to disk? I wonder if it would work
> to store the file in a mmaped memory region and have the readers get
> data from there. We could have more than one copy, reference-counted so
> that they can be removed when the old readers are gone.
what about fifo files...would they be appropriate for something like this?
merlin
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