Re: Performance tuning on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tony Wasson
Subject Re: Performance tuning on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3
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Msg-id 6d8daee30412090720789eacb9@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Performance tuning on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3  ("P.J. \"Josh\" Rovero" <rovero@sonalysts.com>)
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On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 07:50:44 -0500, P.J. Josh Rovero
<rovero@sonalysts.com> wrote:
> There are many reports of kernel problems with memory allocation
> (too agressive) and swap issues with RHEL 3.0 on both RAID
> and non-RAID systems.  I hope folks have worked through all
> those issues before blaming postgresql.

We have seen several boxes have kswapd go crazy (near 100% CPU) on
RHEL 3 boxes. Upgrading to kernel 2.4.21-4 fixed this.

Tony Wasson

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