Re: Postgres && Swap - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Postgres && Swap
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Msg-id dcc563d10809162346l18140d4y92b4679f0b3f2f9e@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Postgres && Swap  (<steve@outtalimits.com.au>)
Responses Re: Postgres && Swap  (<steve@outtalimits.com.au>)
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:30 PM,  <steve@outtalimits.com.au> wrote:
> Hi All
>
>
> I recently made a change to my Postgres Server and upped the max_fsm_page
> size to 60000
> Since then, Postgres has been using about 30-80MB of swap space.
>
> This box has 4GB of RAM. All up Postgres has not been allocated no more
> than 3G
>
> Is this swapping something to be worried about?

I recommend  turning swappiness down in linux that should stop pg from
getting prematurely swapped out like that.

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