Re: Parallel Select query performance and shared buffers

From: Metin Doslu <metin(at)citusdata(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: postgres performance list <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Parallel Select query performance and shared buffers
Date: 2013-12-05 09:33:29
Message-ID: CAL1dPcfJmYNaegTUVi9nDYZRBwr8F=dWUTcdUg9Y1P1gO-nYWw@mail.gmail.com
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> Is your workload bigger than RAM?

RAM is bigger than workload (more than a couple of times).

> I think a good bit of the contention
> you're seeing in that listing is populating shared_buffers - and might
> actually vanish once you're halfway cached.
> From what I've seen so far the bigger problem than contention in the
> lwlocks itself, is the spinlock protecting the lwlocks...

Could you clarify a bit what do you mean by "halfway cached" and "spinlock
protecting the lwlocks".

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