pg.ddx.io  pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org mailing list archive  
help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Large number of open(2) calls with bulk INSERT into empty table
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:12:30 +0000
Message-ID: <827h29q4pd.fsf@mid.bfk.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+TgmoYRGO5Wu4_2yzP0-cmx4GBZHqOO4WKiCxT-R3gV6qrt6A@mail.gmail.com>
References: <82ipm51tcd.fsf@mid.bfk.de>
	<CA+TgmoYRGO5Wu4_2yzP0-cmx4GBZHqOO4WKiCxT-R3gV6qrt6A@mail.gmail.com>

* Robert Haas:

> I tried whacking out the call to GetPageWithFreeSpace() in
> RelationGetBufferForTuple(), and also with the unpatched code, but the
> run-to-run randomness was way more than any difference the change
> made.  Is there a better test case?

I think that if you want to exercise file system lookup performance, you
need a larger directory, which presumably means a large number of
tables.

-- 
Florian Weimer                <fweimer@bfk.de>
BFK edv-consulting GmbH       http://www.bfk.de/
Kriegsstraße 100              tel: +49-721-96201-1
D-76133 Karlsruhe             fax: +49-721-96201-99



view thread (17+ messages)  latest in thread

Message-ID: <827h29q4pd.fsf@mid.bfk.de>
Permalink:  ../827h29q4pd.fsf@mid.bfk.de/
Also on:    postgresql.org/message-id/827h29q4pd.fsf@mid.bfk.de

 · 

reply

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
  reply via email

  To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
  Cc: fweimer@bfk.de, robertmhaas@gmail.com
  Subject: Re: Large number of open(2) calls with bulk INSERT into empty table
  In-Reply-To: <827h29q4pd.fsf@mid.bfk.de>

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

This inbox is served by DDX for PostgreSQL; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox