Re: Swapping on Solaris - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Jeff
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In response to Re: Swapping on Solaris  (Alan Stange <stange@rentec.com>)
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On Jan 19, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Alan Stange wrote:

> Kevin Schroeder wrote:
>
>> I take that back.  There actually is some paging going on.  I ran sar
>> -g 5 10 and when a request was made (totally about 10 DB queries) my
>> pgout/s jumped to 5.8 and my ppgout/s jumped to 121.8.  pgfree/s also
>> jumped to 121.80.
>
> I'm fairly sure that the pi and po numbers include file IO in Solaris,
> because of the unified VM and file systems.

Curiously, what are your shared_buffers and sort_mem set too?
Perhaps they are too high?


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