Time to up bgwriter_lru_maxpages?

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Time to up bgwriter_lru_maxpages?
Date: 2016-11-28 19:40:53
Message-ID: f6e58a22-030b-eb8a-5457-f62fb08d701c@BlueTreble.com
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With current limits, the most bgwriter can do (with 8k pages) is 1000
pages * 100 times/sec = 780MB/s. It's not hard to exceed that with
modern hardware. Should we increase the limit on bgwriter_lru_maxpages?
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