From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: steve@outtalimits.com.au
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postgres && Swap
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:46:13 -0600
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:30 PM, <steve@outtalimits.com.au> wrote:
> Hi All
>
>
> I recently made a change to my Postgres Server and upped the max_fsm_page
> size to 60000
> Since then, Postgres has been using about 30-80MB of swap space.
>
> This box has 4GB of RAM. All up Postgres has not been allocated no more
> than 3G
>
> Is this swapping something to be worried about?
I recommend turning swappiness down in linux that should stop pg from
getting prematurely swapped out like that.
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