Re: Clock sweep not caching enough B-Tree leaf pages?

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Clock sweep not caching enough B-Tree leaf pages?
Date: 2014-04-15 00:30:16
Message-ID: 20140415003016.GB9072@momjian.us
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:11:53AM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> Has anyone thought about this in the last few years? I know that Tom
> examined the LRU-K paper back in 2000 [5], but was discouraged by some
> kind of contention or CPU overhead (although he did say he intended to
> revisit the question). Obviously a lot has changed in the past 14
> years, particularly with regard to CPU characteristics.

I am glad you are looking at this. You are right that it requires a
huge amount of testing, but clearly our code needs improvement in this
area.

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