Have the eviction server concentrate on walking when there are other threads waiting to do eviction.  This is an attempt to avoid cases where the eviction server is busy doing eviction and stalls all other threads. (commit: e507154a88920c98ae0d1b34896ea86fd5e7785e) (detail)
Only threads that try to read pages when the cache is full should block for eviction. (commit: c32ab9672b8b24677c3064eb88ee1082e2ee23d8) (detail)
Add statistics to track eviction server candidate list sizes. (commit: 90864466860b2563842fbac53329e2742d169005) (detail)
Update how multiple eviction threads interact. (commit: 77ff8e033a994362cc7f7a18eaefe727039db8fc) (detail)
Fix build warning. (commit: db3a6da4e1944e3ed194b7a266721c8663a6dace) (detail)
update (commit: 4a0de999237bcf7389846c8dce22b22c2dd261c7) (detail)
Update the list of configuration options: remove --enable-debug, add (commit: 03e18abde844a2cf3aa856807844a45067f33efb) (detail)

--- a/src/btree/bt_evict.c
+++ b/src/btree/bt_evict.c
@@ -670,6 +670,7 @@ __evict_lru(WT_SESSION_IMPL *session, uint32_t flags)
         * are eviction workers running or application threads are waiting
         * for candidates to evict.
         */
+#if 0
        if (cache->eviction_workers > 0 ||
            __wt_cond_has_waiters(session, cache->evict_waiter_cond)) {
                WT_STAT_FAST_CONN_INCR(
@@ -684,6 +685,11 @@ __evict_lru(WT_SESSION_IMPL *session, uint32_t flags)
                WT_STAT_FAST_CONN_INCR(session, cache_eviction_server_evicting);
                WT_RET(__evict_lru_pages(session, 0));
        }
+#else
+       WT_RET(__wt_cond_signal(session, cache->evict_waiter_cond));
+       WT_RET(__evict_lru_pages(session, 0));
+#endif
+
        return (0);
 }