The bufferserver writes pages to disk *only when* it runs out of memory to hold them.
Can you elaborate where you see I/O spikes? -- Chetan On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Atri Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > I was wondering if it makes sense to have a functionality in which > bufferserver writes out data pages to disk in batches defined by > timeslice/application window. > > This will allow flexible workloads and reduce I/O spikes (I understand that > we have non-blocking I/O but it still would incur disk head costs). > > Thoughts? > > -- > Regards, > > Atri > *l'apprenant* >
