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Allow background writing to be shut down by setting limit values to zero.

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This does not disable the bgwriter process: it still has to wake up often
enough to collect fsync requests from backends in a timely fashion.  But
it responds to the recent gripe about not being able to prevent the disk
from being spun up constantly.
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Tom Lane
2004-10-17 22:01:51 +00:00
parent bdbe9c9f06
commit 4347cc2392
4 changed files with 20 additions and 12 deletions
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src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c,v 1.180 2004/10/16 18:57:23 tgl Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c,v 1.181 2004/10/17 22:01:50 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -671,8 +671,10 @@ UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, bool fixOwner)
*
* This is called at checkpoint time to write out all dirty shared buffers,
* and by the background writer process to write out some of the dirty blocks.
* percent/maxpages should be zero in the former case, and nonzero limit
* values in the latter.
* percent/maxpages should be -1 in the former case, and limit values (>= 0)
* in the latter.
*
* Returns the number of buffers written.
*/
int
BufferSync(int percent, int maxpages)
@ -682,6 +684,10 @@ BufferSync(int percent, int maxpages)
int num_buffer_dirty;
int i;
/* If either limit is zero then we are disabled from doing anything... */
if (percent == 0 || maxpages == 0)
return 0;
/*
* Get a list of all currently dirty buffers and how many there are.
* We do not flush buffers that get dirtied after we started. They