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From Alan Hodgson
Subject Re: heavy swapping, not sure why
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In response to heavy swapping, not sure why  (Lonni J Friedman <netllama@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: heavy swapping, not sure why  (Lonni J Friedman <netllama@gmail.com>)
Re: heavy swapping, not sure why  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On August 29, 2011 01:36:07 PM Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> I have several Linux-x68_64 based dedicated PostgreSQL servers where
> I'm experiencing significant swap usage growth over time.

It's the Linux kernel that does it, not PostgreSQL. Set vm.swappiness=0
(usually in /etc/sysctl.conf) and put that into effect.

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