Re: Swapping on Solaris

Maybe, I'm just seeing a problem where none exists.  I ran sar -w 3 100 and
I actually did not see any swap activity despite the fact that I've got
500+MB of swap file being used.

Kevin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Stange" <stange@rentec.com>
To: "Kevin Schroeder" <kschroeder@mirageworks.com>
Cc: <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris


> Kevin Schroeder wrote:
>
>> I take that back.  There actually is some paging going on.  I ran sar -g
>> 5 10 and when a request was made (totally about 10 DB queries) my pgout/s
>> jumped to 5.8 and my ppgout/s jumped to 121.8.  pgfree/s also jumped to
>> 121.80.
>
> I'm fairly sure that the pi and po numbers include file IO in Solaris,
> because of the unified VM and file systems.
>
> -- Alan
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