Re: proposal: Set effective_cache_size to greater of .conf value, shared_buffers

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
> This is the same problem we had with auto-tuning work_mem, in that we
> didn't know what other concurrent activity was happening.  Seems we need
> concurrent activity detection before auto-tuning work_mem and
> effective_cache_size.
>

Perhaps I am missing something obvious here, but would mmgr have any
useful numbers on this? Like any book-keeping info maintained by
mcxt.c/aset.c? Would extending that interface help?

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Amit