Re: Linux memory zone reclaim

From: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: John Lister <john(dot)lister(at)kickstone(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Linux memory zone reclaim
Date: 2012-07-24 20:12:20
Message-ID: CAGTBQpZWiKkCfv9xmv8sdDiXzy+5TCGTS1t-UtAu8AfMmeViHw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM, John Lister <john(dot)lister(at)kickstone(dot)com> wrote:
>> Do you have a suggestion about how to do that? I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and
>> PG 9.1, I've modified pg_ctlcluster to cause pg_ctl to use a wrapper script
>> which starts the postmaster using a numactl wrapper, but all subsequent
>> client processes are started with interleaving enabled as well. Any ideas
>> how to make just the postmaster process start with interleaving?
>
> postmaster should call numactl right after forking:
> http://linux.die.net/man/2/set_mempolicy

Something like the attached patch (untested)

Attachment Content-Type Size
numa.patch application/octet-stream 2.5 KB

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