Re: Swapping on Solaris

Maybe, I'm just seeing a problem where none exists. I ran sar -w 3 100 and
I actually did not see any swap activity despite the fact that I've got
500+MB of swap file being used.

Kevin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Stange" <stange(at)rentec(dot)com>
To: "Kevin Schroeder" <kschroeder(at)mirageworks(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris

> Kevin Schroeder wrote:
>
>> I take that back. There actually is some paging going on. I ran sar -g
>> 5 10 and when a request was made (totally about 10 DB queries) my pgout/s
>> jumped to 5.8 and my ppgout/s jumped to 121.8. pgfree/s also jumped to
>> 121.80.
>
> I'm fairly sure that the pi and po numbers include file IO in Solaris,
> because of the unified VM and file systems.
>
> -- Alan
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