Re: pg/linux How much swap relative to physical memory is needed?

From: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg/linux How much swap relative to physical memory is needed?
Date: 2010-06-10 18:35:31
Message-ID: 201006101135.31654@hal.medialogik.com
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On Thursday, June 10, 2010, Kelly Burkhart <kelly(dot)burkhart(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Should I be concerned?
>
> Thanks,

The default Linux kernel settings will tend to swap stuff out to make more
memory available for filesystem cache. You can lower the value set in
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness to decrease this tendency. I don't think it's
hurting anything, though; it just has pages it thinks can be usefully
swapped out.

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