Re: [HACKERS] Postgres Speed or lack thereof

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Jan Wieck wrote:

> I wrote:
> 
> >
> >     I came to the  same  conclusion.  So  I  continued  with  the
> >     approach  of  bigger  chunks handled in palloc(). What I have
> >     now is  something,  that  gains  about  10%  speedup  at  the
> >     regression  test,  while  memory consumption (visibly watched
> >     with top(1)) seems not to raise compared against old version.
> >
> >     Since  the  bigger  blocks  are  built on top of the existing
> >     memory context model, it would not conflict with any enhanced
> >     usage we could make with it.
> >
> >     I include a patch at the end - please comment.
> >
> >
> > Jan
> 
>     Did anyone play around with it? I've had it installed now for
>     some days and it work's well so far.
> 
>     How close are we to v6.5 BETA? Should I apply it to  CURRENT?

BETA starts upon Vadim's word...I'd say go for it...


Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
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