Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C250E64FCD6 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:30:51 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 70844-01 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:30:48 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.107]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC37064FCCF for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:30:47 -0300 (ADT) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjQGAHsy0Eh8q5NR/2dsb2JhbACIHoQJhVamSYFn X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,412,1217779200"; d="scan'208";a="371849942" Received: from unknown (HELO mail.outtalimits.com.au) ([124.171.147.81]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 17 Sep 2008 13:30:43 +0800 Received: from www.outtalimits.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.outtalimits.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E652B6405C for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:30:43 +1000 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:30:43 +1000 From: To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Postgres && Swap Message-ID: X-Sender: steve@outtalimits.com.au User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.2a Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200809/166 X-Sequence-Number: 30259 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? Cheers Steve.