* Merlin Moncure (mmoncure@gmail.com) wrote:
> I doubt that's necessary though -- if the postgres caching algorithm
> improves such that there is a better tendency for hot pages to stay in
> s_b, Eventually the O/S will deschedule the page for something else
> that needs it. In other words, otherwise preventable double
> buffering is really a measurement of bad eviction policy because it
> manifests in volatility of frequency accessed pages.
I wonder if it would help to actually tell the OS to read in buffers
that we're *evicting*... On the general notion that if the OS already
has them buffered then it's almost a no-op, and if it doesn't and it's
actually a 'hot' buffer that we're gonna need again shortly, the OS will
have it.
In other words, try to make the OS more like a secondary cache to ours
by encouraging it to cache things we're evicting.
Thanks, Stephen