Re: Estimating HugePages Requirements?

From: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
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Subject: Re: Estimating HugePages Requirements?
Date: 2021-09-17 16:31:44
Message-ID: B0511107-6ACD-4002-9E7E-CFB38621836E@amazon.com
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On 9/16/21, 7:21 PM, "Michael Paquier" <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> + GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, &unused);
> + if (hp_size != 0)
> I'd rather change GetHugePageSize() to be able to accept NULL for the
> parameter values, rather than declaring such variables.

Done.

> + To determine the number of huge pages needed, use the
> + <command>postgres</command> command to see the value of
> + <xref linkend="guc-shared-memory-size-in-huge-pages"/>.
> We may want to say as well here that the server should be offline?
> It would not hurt to duplicate this information with
> postgres-ref.sgml.

Done.

> + This setting is supported only on Linux. It is always set to
> Nit: This paragraph is missing two <productname>s for Linux. The docs
> are random about that, but these are new entries.

Done.

Nathan

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