Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C16939FB295 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:44:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 48798-09 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:44:09 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E24809FB250 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:44:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 30so490033ugc for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:44:07 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PTJRKpy6lThpnGc0mif1D1abiS6yot5k9tNqWqqc9m7kDpVR5tUAzibLXHISPufI1j6TEdcloHOE7Wxp5iDLjGSKlximydAo4bFIrdlbV5fj9Agr+GRDfzd887ItYoYXb2ZAq25tVRKlkmnlnyGVdPy7N5AtwWcRslX4w/7j3pA= Received: by 10.78.200.20 with SMTP id x20mr545493huf; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:44:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.35.18 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:44:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:44:07 -0400 From: "Merlin Moncure" To: Ron Subject: Re: Swappiness setting on a linux pg server Cc: "Tobias Brox" , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20061019145143.039a23e0@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061019163530.GC31916@oppetid.no> <7.0.1.0.2.20061019145143.039a23e0@earthlink.net> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.215 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE, SPF_PASS X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200610/421 X-Sequence-Number: 21550 On 10/19/06, Ron wrote: > Nonetheless, "YMMV". The only sure way to know what is best for your > SW running on your HW under your load conditions is to test, test, test. anybody have/know of some data on shared buffer settings on 8.1+? merlin