| From: | "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Ow Mun Heng" <Ow(dot)Mun(dot)Heng(at)wdc(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Need to find out which process is hitting hda |
| Date: | 2007-12-16 23:55:55 |
| Message-ID: | dcc563d10712161555tb9974c6v420570ae4c1ac47b@mail.gmail.com |
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On Dec 14, 2007 1:33 AM, Ow Mun Heng <Ow(dot)Mun(dot)Heng(at)wdc(dot)com> wrote:
> I kept looking at the io columns and didn't even think of the swap
> partition. It's true that it's moving quite erratically but I won't say
> that it's really thrashing.
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 503 498 4 0 3 287
> -/+ buffers/cache: 207 295
> Swap: 2527 328 2199
>
> (YEP, I know I'm RAM starved on this machine)
Good lord, my laptop has more memory than that. :)
What Tom said, buy some more RAM. Also, look at turning down the
swappiness setting as well.
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