Re: Scaling shared buffer eviction

On 14/09/14 19:00, Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Gregory Smith
> <gregsmithpgsql@gmail.com <mailto:gregsmithpgsql@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>  > This looks like it's squashed one of the very fundamental buffer
>  >  scaling issues though; well done Amit.
>
> Thanks.
>
>  > I'll go back to my notes and try to recreate the pathological cases
>  > that plagued both the 8.3 BGW rewrite and the aborted 9.2 fsync
>  > spreading effort I did; get those running again and see how they
>  > do on this new approach.  I have a decent sized 24 core server
>  > that should be good enough for this job.  I'll see what I can do.
>
> It will be really helpful if you can try out those cases.
>
>

And if you want 'em run on the 60 core beast, just let me know the 
details and I'll do some runs for you.

Cheers

Mark