Re: Estimating HugePages Requirements?

Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>

From: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>

To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>, Don Seiler <don@seiler.us>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2021-08-27T19:27:18Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Attachments

v5-0001-introduce-option-for-retreiving-shmem-size.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v5-0001

On 8/27/21, 11:16 AM, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com> wrote:
> I added some documentation in v4.

I realized that my attempt at documenting this new option was missing
some important context about the meaning of the return value when used
against a running server.  I added that in v5.

Nathan

Commits

Silence extra logging when using "postgres -C" on runtime-computed GUCs
- 8bbf8461a3a2 15.0 landed
doc: Improve postgres command for shared_memory_size_in_huge_pages
- bbd4951b73ec 15.0 landed
Introduce GUC shared_memory_size_in_huge_pages
- 43c1c4f65eab 15.0 landed
Support "postgres -C" with runtime-computed GUCs
- 0c39c292077e 15.0 landed
Make shared_memory_size a preset option
- 3b231596ccfc 15.0 landed
Introduce GUC shared_memory_size
- bd1788051b02 15.0 landed
Move the shared memory size calculation to its own function
- 0bd305ee1d42 15.0 landed
Add new GUC, max_worker_processes, limiting number of bgworkers.
- 6bc8ef0b7f1f 9.4.0 cited