Re: Reducing power consumption on idle servers

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(dot)riggs(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Zheng Li <zhengli10(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <nasbyj(at)amazon(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reducing power consumption on idle servers
Date: 2022-11-20 22:55:47
Message-ID: 20221120225547.GA608766@nathanxps13
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 10:31:15AM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 9:00 AM Simon Riggs
> <simon(dot)riggs(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> As a 3rd patch, I will work on making logical workers hibernate.
>
> Duelling patch warning: Nathan mentioned[1] that he's hacking on a
> patch for that, along the lines of the recent walreceiver change IIUC.

I coded something up last week, but, like the walreceiver patch, it caused
check-world to take much longer [0], and I haven't looked into whether it
could be easily fixed. I'm hoping to make some time for this again in the
near future.

[0] https://postgr.es/m/20221113222644.GA1269110%40nathanxps13

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