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From: Marc Millas <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: shared buffers
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:42:59 +0200
Message-ID: <CADX_1abjKJhk10vWz6S=cwgXsppGXw2VjNnLVByE3EMJzLzD4w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

hello,

got something strange to me:
Same db ie. same data, around 1.2TB,one on pg13, one on pg16
same 16 GB of shared_buffers,
I am the single user.
both have track_io_timing on

on pg13, if I run a big request with explain (analyze,buffers),
I see around 6 GB read
if I do rerun the very same request, no more read(s), all data in the
shared buffers cache. fine
If I check with pg_buffercache what's in it, I see the biggest tables of my
request within the biggest users (in number of blocks used). All this is
fine.

next, if I do the very same on the pg16 machine, whatever the number of
times I rerun the explain (analyze, buffers) of the same request, each
time, the explain shows the same volume of reads. again and again.
If I check with pg_buffercache, the set of objects stay the same, WITHOUT
the objects of my request, just like if those objects where sticky.

any idea ?

thanks

Marc MILLAS
Senior Architect
+33607850334
www.mokadb.com

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