Re: [HACKERS] Time to up bgwriter_lru_maxpages?

On 2/1/17 4:28 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2016-11-28 11:40:53 -0800, Jim Nasby wrote:
>> With current limits, the most bgwriter can do (with 8k pages) is 1000 pages
>> * 100 times/sec = 780MB/s. It's not hard to exceed that with modern
>> hardware. Should we increase the limit on bgwriter_lru_maxpages?
>
> FWIW, I think working on replacing bgwriter (e.g. by working on the
> patch I send with a POC replacement) wholesale is a better approach than
> spending time increasing limits.

Do you have a link to that? I'm not seeing anything in the archives.
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