| From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Sim Zacks <sim(at)compulab(dot)co(dot)il> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: heavy swapping, not sure why |
| Date: | 2011-08-30 09:53:36 |
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Sim Zacks <sim(at)compulab(dot)co(dot)il> wrote:
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> Instead of restarting the database try swapoff -a && swapon -a and see if
> that helps performance. If it is that little swap in use, it might be
> something else clogging up the works.
Check to see if kswapd is going crazy or not. If it is, that's the
pathological behavior I was talking about earlier. It works real hard
at doing nothing and the machine grinds to a halt. swapoff -a fixed
it. And it was happening about every 2 weeks for me too.
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