Markus Wanner wrote: > Hi, > > On 08/09/2010 06:10 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > My point is that you can treat malloc the same as "add shared memory", > > to some extent, with the same limiations. > > Once one of the SLRU buffers is full, it cannot currently allocate from > another SLRU buffer's unused memory area. That memory there is plain > wasted at that moment. That's my point and the problem the allocator I > posted tries to solve. > > I fail to see how malloc could help here. malloc() only allocates > process-local memory.
My point is that we have the same limitations with malloc()/threads, as we have with shared memory. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
