On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Aidan Van Dyk <ai...@highrise.ca> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> And hoping that the Linux guys decide to do something about it. >> This isn't really our bug - lseek is quite cheap in the uncontended >> case. > > Has anyone tried this on a recent kernel (i.e. 2.6.39 or later), where > they've finally remove the BKL out of VFS/inode? > > I mean, complaining about scalability in linux 2.6.18 is like > complaining about scalability in postgresql 8.2 ;-)
Hmm. This machine is running 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64, not 2.6.18. Not sure how much the code has changed since then, but the spinlock is there in the master branch of Linus's repository. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
