Re: To keep indexes in memory, is large enough effective_cache_size enough?

On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 18:36, Sam R. <samruohola@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Regarding double buffering: I do not know how much double buffering would slow down operations.
> It could also be possible to turn off kernel page cache on our DB server, to avoid double buffering. Although, we may
stillkeep it in use.
 

I think you've misunderstood double buffering.  The double buffering
itself does not slow anything down. If the buffer is in shared buffers
already then it does not need to look any further for it. Double
buffering only becomes an issue when buffers existing 2 times in
memory causes other useful buffers to appear 0 times.

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