On May 5, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from Peter Geoghegan's message of jue may 05 16:49:25 -0300 2011: > >> I'll need to take a look at statistics, autovacuum and Logger >> processes too, to see if they present more subtle opportunities for >> reduced idle power consumption. > > More subtle? Autovacuum wakes up once per second and it could sleep a > lot longer if it weren't for the loop that checks for signals. I think > that could be improved a lot.
Could kqueue be of use here? Non-kqueue-supporting platforms could always fall back to the existing select(). Cheers, M -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
