Re: RHEL-8 Kernel Settings - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Johannes Truschnigg
Subject Re: RHEL-8 Kernel Settings
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Msg-id 20210611070617.GB5793@vault.lan
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In response to Re: RHEL-8 Kernel Settings  (Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>)
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On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 08:56:13AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> [...]
> I recommend setting
>
>   vm.overcommit_memory = 2

Be careful with this though, most applications no not allocate memory as
thoughtfully as Postgres - so if your server is running any other kind of
service/software in addition to Postgres, you should make sure that can
survive Linux not overcommitting like there's no tomorrow, too.

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