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Re: CLOG contention

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2012-01-05T20:25:51Z
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On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> If we go with such a formula, I think 32 MB would be a more
> appropriate divisor than 128 MB.  Even on very large machines where
> 32 CLOG buffers would be a clear win, we often can't go above 1 or 2
> GB of shared_buffers without hitting latency spikes due to overrun
> of the RAID controller cache.  (Now, that may change if we get DW
> in, but that's not there yet.)  1 GB / 32 is 32 MB.  This would
> leave CLOG pinned at the minimum of 8 buffers (64 KB) all the way up
> to shared_buffers of 256 MB.

That seems reasonable to me.

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Robert Haas
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