Re: Huge Pages - setting the right value - Mailing list pgsql-general

From pinker
Subject Re: Huge Pages - setting the right value
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Msg-id 207418312-2645dd972693d6d9f3673c2b31de0040@pmq5.m5r2.onet
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In response to Huge Pages - setting the right value  (pinker <pinker@onet.eu>)
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W dniu 2017-03-30 11:45:55 użytkownik pinker <pinker@onet.eu> napisał:
> Hi,
> I'm currently testing performance with and without huge pages. Documentation
> says that in order to estimate the number of huge pages needed one should
> check the postmaster's VmPeak value. I wonder if it's only postmaster memory
> usage what's matters? Or I could get better estimation from the most memory
> intensive postgres process - not necessarly postmaster? I'm using following
> command to check it:
> for i in $(ps -ef | grep postgres|awk '{print $2}'); do grep ^VmPeak
> /proc/${i}/status|awk '{print $2}' >> log; done; sort -n -r log | head -1
>
> I'm asking because some other process takes 606788kB while postmaster only
> 280444kB.
>
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or maybe sum of all processes?
I assume that memory allocated by postmaster means shared buffers, so if one wants to huge pages beeing used for
sortingas well then should set some bigger number of huge pages in the kernel? Is it a right assumption? 





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