Re: Idea about better configuration options for sort
От | Rod Taylor |
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Тема | Re: Idea about better configuration options for sort |
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Msg-id | 1075832326.308.277.camel@jester обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Idea about better configuration options for sort memory (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>) |
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Re: Idea about better configuration options for sort
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Список | pgsql-hackers |
> > > "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> writes: > > > > any chance of having some kind of max_total_sort_mem setting to keep > > > > machines out of swap storms, or would that be a nightmare to implement? > Someone asked for this in Copenhagen, and I said we can't see how to do > it. The only idea I had as to give the first requestor 50% of the > total, then a second query 50% of the remaining memory. Is that better > than what we have? Lets look at it from another direction. The goal isn't to set a maximum memory amount, but to avoid swapping. Add a toggle to PostgreSQL that says (essentially) "I am the only resource intensive program running". If this was done, could we not work closer with the kernel? Ask the kernel how much Free + Buffer memory there is, knock it down by 75% and use that for our sort memory value (total sort memory for individual backend -- not operation). -- Rod Taylor <rbt [at] rbt [dot] ca> Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc
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