Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: 
> Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
>> I think that changing the locking behavior is attacking the problem
>> at the wrong level anyway.
> 
> Right.  By the time a patch here could have any effect, you've
> already lost the game --- having to deschedule and reschedule a
> process is a large cost compared to the typical lock hold time for
> most LWLocks.  So it would be better to look at how to avoid
> blocking in the first place.
 
That's what motivated my request for a profile of the "80 clients with
zero wait" case.  If all data access is in RAM, why can't 80 processes
keep 64 threads (on 8 processors) busy?  Does anybody else think
that's an interesting question, or am I off in left field here?
 
-Kevin

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