Re: overcommit_ratio setting - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: overcommit_ratio setting
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Msg-id 8f67083bf8fee0c8af858d1b47b6505ebb106c93.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to overcommit_ratio setting  (Yi Sun <yinan81@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: overcommit_ratio setting  (Yi Sun <yinan81@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, 2021-06-14 at 18:16 +0800, Yi Sun wrote:
> After checking doc, only mentioned vm.overcommit_memory=2, but didn't mentioned vm.overcommit_ratio recommended
value
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/kernel-resources.html#LINUX-MEMORY-OVERCOMMIT
> some articles mentioned that 80 or 90 configuration in their env
> So is it OK just to configure  vm.overcommit_ratio to 90 please?

It depends on the size of RAM and swap space:

overcommit_ratio < (RAM - swap) / RAM * 100

Here, RAM is the RAM available to PostgreSQL.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com




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