Tom Lane wrote:
Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
buffers_to_clean = Max(buffers_used * 1.1,
buffers_to_clean * 0.999);
That would be overly aggressive on a workload that's steady on average,
but consists of small bursts. Like this: 0 0 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 100 0 0 0 0
100. You'd end up writing ~100 pages on every bgwriter round, but you
only need an average of 20 pages per round.
No, you wouldn't be *writing* that many, you'd only be keeping that many
*clean*; which only costs more work if any of them get re-dirtied
between writing and use. Which is a fairly small probability if we're
talking about a small difference in the number of buffers to keep clean.
So I think the average number of writes is hardly different, it's just
that the backends are far less likely to have to do any of them.
Ah, ok, I misunderstood what you were proposing. Yes, that seems like a
good algorithm then.
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