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Re: Seeing context switch storm with 10/13 snapshot of


  • From: "Qingqing Zhou" <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>
  • To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Seeing context switch storm with 10/13 snapshot of
  • Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:15:43 -0400
  • Message-id: <djk4g2$12v1$1(at)news(dot)hub(dot)org>

"Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote
>>
>> How do other databases deal with this?  I can't imagine we are the only
>> ones.  Are we doing something different than them?
>
> I'm not sure the people qualified to answer that are able to do so. What
> do other OSS projects do about this is more likely an answerable
> question.
>

I happened to know that a similar problem which is called "convoy 
phenomenon" is discussed in 1979 (Wow! :-)) But not exactly the same case 
maybe.

I copied the paper and put it here: 
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~zhouqq/convoy.pdf

Regards,
Qingqing 





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