Re: limiting hint bit I/O

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> this seems to be speeding up the first run by 6x at the expense of
>> slowing down many subsequent runs by 10-15%.
>
> If the overall throughput when measured far enough out to have hit a
> steady state again is anywhere in the neighborhood of the unpatched
> throughput, the leveling of the response times has enough value to
> merit the change.  At least in my world.

I think it would eventually settle down to the same speed, but it
might take a really long time. I got impatient before I got that far.
I'm hoping some will pick it up and play with it some more (hint,
hint).

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