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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:28:19 -0500
From: Shaun Thomas <sthomas@optionshouse.com>
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To: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Tons of free RAM. Can't make it go away.
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On 10/22/2012 01:14 PM, Claudio Freire wrote:

> You may want to try setting the numa policy before launching postgres:
>
> numactl --interleave=all pg_ctl start

I thought about that. I'd try it on one of our stage nodes, but both of 
them show an even memory split. I'm not sure why our prod node is acting 
this way. We've used bcfg2 so every server has the exact same 
configuration, including kernel parameters, startup settings, and so on. 
I can only conclude that there's something about the activity itself 
that's causing it.

I'll have to take another look after the market closes to see if the 
unallocated chunk shrinks.


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Shaun Thomas
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