Re: So, can we stop supporting Windows native now?

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Thomas Munro wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 2:53 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>> > It would also be nice to find out why we can't usefully scale shared buffers
>> > higher like we can on *nix.
>>
>> Has anyone ever looked into whether asking for SEC_LARGE_PAGES would
>> help with that?
>
> The huge_pages feature is fairly new, and as I recall the intention is
> that other operating systems will be supported as we get patches for it.
> Feel free to submit something.

I don't have a Windows development stack or any plans to get one but I
did make some notes and write some blind code for this a while back
when I was studying the shmem code. Here it is, in the hope that it
might be a useful starting point for someone else... I suppose the
first step is to find a benchmark that improves as you increase
shared_buffers on Windows and Linux but plateaus at a much lower
setting on Windows, and then get a patch like this working and see if
huge_pages = on changes anything...

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Thomas Munro
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