Re: Performance on SUSE w/ reiserfs

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Jon Brisbin <jon(dot)brisbin(at)npcinternational(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Performance on SUSE w/ reiserfs
Date: 2005-10-10 22:15:40
Message-ID: 200510101515.40364.josh@agliodbs.com
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Jon,

> Any help you can give in this would be extrememly helpful as I'm very
> far from an expert on Linux filesystems and postgres tuning.

See Tom's response; it may be that you don't have an issue at all.

If you do, it's probably the kernel, not the FS. 2.6.8 and a few other
2.6.single-digit kernels had memory leaks in shmem that would cause
gradually escalating swappage. The solution to that one is to upgrade to
2.6.11.

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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