X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 224DCD9106 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:36:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 35842-10 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:35:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52142D9F22 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:35:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j9AMZtkK006746; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:35:55 -0400 (EDT) To: Jon Brisbin Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Performance on SUSE w/ reiserfs In-reply-to: <434AE7FF.4000705@npcinternational.com> References: <434ADD46.5060206@npcinternational.com> <6247.1128981289@sss.pgh.pa.us> <434AE7FF.4000705@npcinternational.com> Comments: In-reply-to Jon Brisbin message dated "Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:15:27 -0500" Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:35:55 -0400 Message-ID: <6745.1128983755@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.006 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.006] X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200510/180 X-Sequence-Number: 14948 Jon Brisbin writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> If you're not swapping then you do not have a problem. > Except for the fact that my Java App server crashes when all the > available memory is being used by caching and not reclaimed :-) That's a kernel bug (or possibly a Java bug ;-)). I concur with Josh's suggestion that you need a newer kernel. regards, tom lane