Re: High kswapd

From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
To: Don Seiler <don(at)seiler(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: High kswapd
Date: 2020-04-13 14:58:52
Message-ID: 20200413145852.GT2228@telsasoft.com
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On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 09:46:22AM -0500, Don Seiler wrote:
> ==> /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run <==
> 0

Was it off to begin with ?
If not, you can set it to "2" to "unshare" pages.

> ==> /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag <==
> 1

So I'd suggest trying with this disabled.

I don't know if I ever fully understood the problem, but it sounds like at
least in your case it's related to large shared_buffers, and hugepages, which
cannot be swapped out.

--
Justin

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