Re: pgsql: Introduce pg_shmem_allocations_numa view

From: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Introduce pg_shmem_allocations_numa view
Date: 2025-06-23 15:20:12
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Re: Andres Freund
> > > Why do we try to force the pages to be allocated at all? This is just
> > > a monitoring function, it should not change the actual system state.
>
> The problem is that the kernel function just gives bogus results for pages
> that *are* present in memory but that have only touched in another process
> that has mapped the same range of memory.

Ok, so we leave the touching in, but still defend against negative
status values?

Christoph

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