RE: Shared Memory: How to use SYSV rather than MMAP ?

REIX, Tony <tony.reix@atos.net>

From: "REIX, Tony" <tony.reix@atos.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "EMPEREUR-MOT, SYLVIE" <sylvie.empereur-mot@atos.net>
Date: 2018-11-20T15:37:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi Robert,


YES ! Reading this file, your suggestion should work ! Thx !

I've rebuilt and run the basic tests. We'll relaunch our tests asap.

Cordialement,

Tony Reix

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De : Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Envoyé : mardi 20 novembre 2018 15:53:11
À : REIX, Tony
Cc : pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; EMPEREUR-MOT, SYLVIE
Objet : Re: Shared Memory: How to use SYSV rather than MMAP ?

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 8:36 AM REIX, Tony <tony.reix@atos.net> wrote:
> We are trying to understand why pgbench on AIX is slower compared to Linux/Power on the same HW/Disks.
>
> So, we have yet no idea about what may be the root cause and what should be changed.
>
> So, changing:     dynamic_shared_memory_type = sysv    seems to help.
>
> And maybe changing the main shared memory segment could also improve the performance. However, how one can change this?

There's no configuration setting for the main shared memory segment,
but removing #define USE_ANONYMOUS_SHMEM from sysv_shmem.c would
probably do the trick.

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Commits

  1. Add shared_memory_type GUC.

  2. Dramatically reduce System V shared memory consumption.