Le 07/06/2015 16:53, Fabien COELHO a écrit : > +» » /*·Others:·say·that·data·should·not·be·kept·in·memory... > +» » ·*·This·is·not·exactly·what·we·want·to·say,·because·we·want·to·write > +» » ·*·the·data·for·durability·but·we·may·need·it·later·nevertheless. > +» » ·*·It·seems·that·Linux·would·free·the·memory·*if*·the·data·has > +» » ·*·already·been·written·do·disk,·else·it·is·ignored. > +» » ·*·For·FreeBSD·this·may·have·the·desired·effect·of·moving·the > +» » ·*·data·to·the·io·layer. > +» » ·*/ > +» » rc·=·posix_fadvise(context->fd,·context->offset,·context->nbytes, > +» » » » » » ···POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED); > +
It looks a bit hazardous, do you have a benchmark for freeBSD ? Sources says: case POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED: /* * Flush any open FS buffers and then remove pages * from the backing VM object. Using vinvalbuf() here * is a bit heavy-handed as it flushes all buffers for * the given vnode, not just the buffers covering the * requested range. -- Cédric Villemain +33 (0)6 20 30 22 52 http://2ndQuadrant.fr/ PostgreSQL: Support 24x7 - Développement, Expertise et Formation -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers