Re: [GENERAL] pg_buffercache's usage count

2010-02-24 Thread Greg Smith
Ben Chobot wrote: On Feb 23, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Ben Chobot wrote: I'm looking at the usage count column of pg_buffercache's info, and I'm confused. Several buffers that supposed have LRU values of 5 belong to non-unique indices which supposedly have never been used. As I understand

Re: [GENERAL] pg_buffercache's usage count

2010-02-24 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Greg Smith wrote: Ben Chobot wrote: On Feb 23, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Ben Chobot wrote: I'm looking at the usage count column of pg_buffercache's info, and I'm confused. Several buffers that supposed have LRU values of 5 belong to non-unique indices which supposedly have never been used. As I

Re: [GENERAL] pg_buffercache's usage count

2010-02-24 Thread Greg Smith
Alvaro Herrera wrote: BTW the only reason you don't see buffers having a larger usage is that the counters are capped at that value. Right, the usage count is limited to 5 for no reason besides that seems like a good number. We keep hoping to come across a data set and application with a

Re: [GENERAL] pg_buffercache's usage count

2010-02-24 Thread Ben Chobot
On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Greg Smith wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: BTW the only reason you don't see buffers having a larger usage is that the counters are capped at that value. Right, the usage count is limited to 5 for no reason besides that seems like a good number. We keep

[GENERAL] pg_buffercache's usage count

2010-02-23 Thread Ben Chobot
I'm looking at the usage count column of pg_buffercache's info, and I'm confused. Several buffers that supposed have LRU values of 5 belong to non-unique indices which supposedly have never been used. As I understand things, that shouldn't happen. Am I missing something? -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] pg_buffercache's usage count

2010-02-23 Thread Ben Chobot
On Feb 23, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Ben Chobot wrote: I'm looking at the usage count column of pg_buffercache's info, and I'm confused. Several buffers that supposed have LRU values of 5 belong to non-unique indices which supposedly have never been used. As I understand things, that shouldn't