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Jan Lehnardt commented on COUCHDB-271:
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The best way to get any patch into OTP is coming up with a patch to send to
erlang-patc...@. If we manage to find cross-platform alternatives and a
non-intrusive patch, I'd assume a high chance of Ericsson accepting the patch.
We could make it easy and label the patch Linux-only, but we might as well do
some research for at least Windows, Solaris, the BSD's and Darwin.
Once included and released with OTP, we'd bump the minimum required version.
If either the patch gets rejected or want to support older OTP releases, we
should look into the external daemon variant.
> preventing compaction from ruining the OS block cache
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>
> Key: COUCHDB-271
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-271
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Database Core
> Affects Versions: 0.8.1, 0.9
> Reporter: Jan Lehnardt
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> Adam Kocolosk:
> Hi, I've noticed that compacting large DBs pretty much kills any filesystem
> caching benefits for CouchDB. I believe the problem is that the OS (Linux
> 2.6.21 kernel in my case) is caching blocks from the .compact file, even
> though those blocks won't be read again until compaction has finished. In
> the meantime, the portion of the cache dedicated to the old DB file shrinks
> and performance really suffers.
> I think a better mode of operation would be to advise/instruct the OS not to
> cache any portion of the .compact file until we're ready to replace the main
> DB. On Linux, specifying the POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED option to posix_fadvise()
> seems like the way to go:
> http://linux.die.net/man/2/posix_fadvise
> This link has a little more detail and a usage example:
> http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise.html
> Of course, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED isn't really available from inside the Erlang
> VM. Perhaps the simplest approach would be to have a helper process that we
> can spawn which calls that function (or its equivalent on a non-Linux OS)
> periodically during compaction? I'm not really sure, but I wanted to get
> this out on the list for discussion. Best,
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