On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Kevin Grittner <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> perhaps it would be possible by, say, increasing the number of >> lock partitions by 8x. It would be nice to segregate these issues >> though, because using pread/pwrite is probably a lot less work >> than rewriting our lock manager. > > You mean easier than changing this 4 to a 7?: > > #define LOG2_NUM_LOCK_PARTITIONS 4 > > Or am I missing something?
Right. They did something more complicated (and, I think, better) than that, but that change by itself might be enough to ameliorate the lock contention enough to see the lsek() issue. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
