Re: hugepage configuration for V.9.4.0

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: John Scalia <jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: hugepage configuration for V.9.4.0
Date: 2015-01-29 19:15:35
Message-ID: 24917.1422558935@sss.pgh.pa.us
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John Scalia <jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On 1/29/2015 1:18 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Also, there may well be request limits that apply specifically to hugepage
>> segments; I don't know too much about that.

> Thanks to all that responded. I really kind of figured that a 4Gb server was too small, but I'm limited to that by our virtual server configuration system. I'll look into how this
> kernel is configured, Tom, but is there something specific that you know
> of for me to examine?

The manual section that somebody else pointed you to mentions a
vm.nr_hugepages setting ...

regards, tom lane

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