| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Swapping on Solaris |
| Date: | 2005-02-02 15:54:50 |
| Message-ID: | 200502021554.j12Fsos02151@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:42:26AM -0500, Alan Stange wrote:
> >
> > I'm fairly sure that the pi and po numbers include file IO in Solaris,
> > because of the unified VM and file systems.
>
> That's correct.
I have seen cases on BSDs where 'pi' includes page-faulting in the
executables from the file system, but Solaris actually has 'po' as
filesystem I/O. That is a new one to me.
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