Re: Process wakeups when idle and power consumption

Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-05-10T11:39:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Attachments

Attached is win32 implementation of the "named pipe trick".

It consists of a Visual Studio 2008 solution that contains two
projects, named_pipe_trick (which represents the postmaster) and
auxiliary_backend (which represents each auxiliary process). I split
the solution into two projects/programs because Windows lacks fork()
to make it all happen with a single program.

Thoughts? Once I have some buy-in, I'd like to write a patch for the
latch code that incorporates monitoring the postmaster using the named
pipe trick (for both unix_latch.c and win32_latch.c), plus Heikki's
suggestions.

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