On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 10:11 +0200, Marc Rechté wrote:
> > I think that "vm.swappiness" should be 0.
> > PostgreSQL does its own memory management, any swapping by the kernel
> > would go against that.
> >
> > Yours,
> > Laurenz Albe
> >
> As said in the post, we wish the idle backends to be swapped out if
> necessary. Therefore lowering swappiness would produce the opposite
> effect: swapping out Linux file cache rather than backends memory.
I see. Sorry for not paying attention.
An idle backend consumes only a few MB of RAM, though.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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