Re: Spinlock performance improvement proposal

Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>

From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-10-01T21:57:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:

> From postmaster startup, by default, could we try larger amounts of
> buffer memory until it fails then back off and allocate that?  Seems
> like a nice default to me.

So performance would vary depending on the amount of shared memory
that could be allocated at startup?  Not a good idea IMHO.

Regards,

Giles