Re: Reducing power consumption on idle servers

On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 at 22:55, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 10:31:15AM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 9:00 AM Simon Riggs
> > <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> >> As a 3rd patch, I will work on making logical workers hibernate.
> >
> > Duelling patch warning: Nathan mentioned[1] that he's hacking on a
> > patch for that, along the lines of the recent walreceiver change IIUC.
>
> I coded something up last week, but, like the walreceiver patch, it caused
> check-world to take much longer [0], and I haven't looked into whether it
> could be easily fixed.  I'm hoping to make some time for this again in the
> near future.
>
> [0] https://postgr.es/m/20221113222644.GA1269110%40nathanxps13

OK, Nathan, will leave this one to you - remembering that we need to
fix ALL processes to get a useful power reduction when idle.

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