Re: Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

Not surprising, I should have thought. Why would you care that much?  
The idea as I understand it is to improve the responsiveness of things 
happening alongside vacuum ("real work"). I normally run vacuum when I 
don't expect anything else much to be happening - but I don't care how 
long it takes (within reason), especially if it isn't going to intefere 
with other uses.

cheers

andrew

Stephen wrote:

>As it turns out. With vacuum_page_delay = 0, VACUUM took 1m20s (80s) to
>complete, with vacuum_page_delay = 1 and vacuum_page_delay = 10, both
>VACUUMs completed in 18m3s (1080 sec). A factor of 13 times! This is for a
>single 350 MB table.
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>Apparently, it looks like the upcoming Linux kernel 2.6 will have a smaller
>quantum:
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>http://go.jitbot.com/linux2.6-quantum
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>There is also mention of user-space tweak to get a more accurate time slice
>of near 1ms on Linux, but I'm not sure how this works and if it applies to
>Unixes:
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>http://go.jitbot.com/linux-devrtc-quantum
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>Regards, Stephen
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>"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote in message
>news:2254.1067713969@sss.pgh.pa.us...
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>>"Stephen" <jleelim@xxxxxx.com> writes:
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>>>also as there are less processes waiting to complete. I find a value of
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>1ms
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>>>to 5ms is quite good and will keep system responsive. Going from 10ms to
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>1ms
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>>>didn't seem to reduce the total vacuum time by much and I'm not sure
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>why.
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>>On most Unixen, the effective resolution of sleep requests is whatever
>>the scheduler time quantum is --- and 10ms is the standard quantum in
>>most cases.  So any delay less than 10ms is going to be interpreted as
>>10ms.
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>>I think on recent Linuxen it's possible to adjust the time quantum, but
>>whether this would be a net win isn't clear; presumably a shorter
>>quantum would result in more scheduler overhead and more process-swap
>>penalties.
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>>regards, tom lane
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