Re: heavy swapping, not sure why

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: heavy swapping, not sure why
Date: 2011-08-30 21:55:20
Message-ID: 4E5D5C48.9060500@hogranch.com
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On 08/30/11 12:18 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> total used free shared buffers cached
>>> >> Mem: 56481 55486 995 0 15 53298
>>> >> -/+ buffers/cache: 2172 54309
>>> >> Swap: 1099 18 1081
>> > This is totally uninteresting.
> Yeah. You're going to need a whole lot more than 17MB of bloat before
> it'll be possible to tell which process is at fault, given that the
> expected process sizes are up to 10GB.

indeed, its 100% normal for the linux virtual memory manager to write
'dirty' pages to the swapfile during idle time.

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