Re: Swapping on Solaris - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Swapping on Solaris
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Msg-id 200502021554.j12Fsos02151@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Swapping on Solaris  (Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>)
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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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