Re: Supporting huge pages on Windows

From: "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>
To: 'Andres Freund' <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Supporting huge pages on Windows
Date: 2016-10-11 02:36:06
Message-ID: 0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F5F9E54@G01JPEXMBYT05
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From: Thomas Munro [mailto:thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com]
> Your ~2.4% number is similar to what was reported for Linux with 4GB
> shared_buffers:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20130913234125.GC13697%40roobarb
> .crazydogs.org

I'm relieved to know that a similar figure was gained on Linux. Thanks for the info.

> Later in that thread there was a report of a dramatic ~15% increase in "best
> result" TPS, but that was with 60GB of shared_buffers on a machine with
> 256GB of RAM:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20131024060313.GA21888%40toroid.
> org

From: Andres Freund [mailto:andres(at)anarazel(dot)de]
> FWIW, I've seen 2-3x increases with ~60GB of s_b.

Wow, nice figures. It's unfortunate that I don't have such a big machine available at hand.

Regards
Takayuki Tsunakawa

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