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> However, I think the main issue isn't finding new algorithms that are
> better in some specific circumstances. The hard part is figuring out
> whether their performance is better in general. My idea was to create
> a patch to capture page pinning traffic from PostgreSQL (maybe stream
> out into a per backend file), run it with some production workloads
> and use that to generate testing workloads for the cache replacement
> policies. Haven't gotten round to actually doing that though.
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIRS_caching_algorithm
Thanks for the link. I think LIRS can indeed be helpful in our case.
We should indeed build some test cases for testing this theory. I am
all for capturing page replacement and usage data and analyzing it.
Atri
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Atri
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