On Sat, Sep 13, 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > While looking into a block size mismatch problem between
> > Postgresql and FreeBSD's FFS, I noticed that postgresql is making
> > some rather odd-sized requests to malloc(3): 0x
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> Sean Chittenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Are there any objections
> > to me increasing the block size for FreeBSD installations to 16K for
> > the upcoming 7.4 release?
>
> I'm a little uncomfortable with introducing a cross-platform variation
> in th
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Thomas Swan wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone looked at changing the default block size across the board
> > > and what the performance improvements/penalties might be? Hardware has
> > >
While looking into a block size mismatch problem between
Postgresql and FreeBSD's FFS, I noticed that postgresql is making
some rather odd-sized requests to malloc(3): 0x2034, 0x2020,
0x4018, 0x8018, etc. Most malloc(3) implementations round large
allocations up to a multiple of a large power of 2
