Re: [PATCHES] ARC Memory Usage analysis

Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-10-30T13:40:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance
On 10/26/2004 1:53 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
>> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>>> Another issue is what we do with the effective_cache_size value once we
>>> have a number we trust.  We can't readily change the size of the ARC
>>> lists on the fly.
> 
>> Huh? I thought effective_cache_size was just used as an factor the cost
>> estimation equation.
> 
> Today, that is true.  Jan is speculating about using it as a parameter
> of the ARC cache management algorithm ... and that worries me.

If we need another config option, it's not that we are running out of 
possible names, is it?


Jan

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