Subject: Re: Memory and Swap
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From: Marco Nietz <pg@mnietz.de>
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Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 07:37:20 +0200
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Linux tends to swap out to early with the default settings of 
swappiness, try to decrease it to 10 or 1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swappiness

Marco


Am 10.05.2016 um 22:23 schrieb Campbell, Lance:
> PostgreSQL 9.5.2
>
> Linux Red Hat
>
> I have 10 G of memory.  Nagios is saying I have 2 G used and 8 G free.
>
> Yet my swap is at 1 G.
>
> 1)Why is that?
>
> 2)Over that past week it has climbed from almost nothing to 1 G.  It is
> a steady climb.  No big jump.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lance
>


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