Re: high io BUT huge amount of free memory

From: Shaun Thomas <sthomas(at)optionshouse(dot)com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Миша Тюрин <tmihail(at)bk(dot)ru>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: high io BUT huge amount of free memory
Date: 2013-04-23 14:50:12
Message-ID: 51769FA4.1040502@optionshouse.com
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On 04/22/2013 05:12 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:

>> free -g
>> total used free shared buffers cached
>> Mem: 378 250 128 0 0 229
>> -/+ buffers/cache: 20 357

This is most likely a NUMA issue. There really seems to be some kind of
horrible flaw in the Linux kernel when it comes to properly handling
NUMA on large memory systems.

What does this say:

numactl --hardware

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