Re: High context switches occurring

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Anjan Dave <adave(at)vantage(dot)com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>, Postgresql Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: High context switches occurring
Date: 2005-11-23 18:13:58
Message-ID: 1132769638.4347.7.camel@localhost.localdomain
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On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 18:17 -0500, Anjan Dave wrote:

> It's mostly a 'read' application, I increased the vm.max-readahead to
> 2048 from the default 256, after which I've not seen the CS storm,
> though it could be incidental.

Can you verify this, please?

Turn it back down again, try the test, then reset and try the test.

If that is a repeatable way of recreating one manifestation of the
problem then we will be further ahead than we are now.

Thanks,

Best Regards, Simon Riggs

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