Re: Swappiness setting on a linux pg server

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От Tobias Brox
Тема Re: Swappiness setting on a linux pg server
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Msg-id 20061019165349.GE31916@oppetid.no
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Ответ на Swappiness setting on a linux pg server  (Tobias Brox <tobias@nordicbet.com>)
Ответы Re: Swappiness setting on a linux pg server  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>)
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[Jim C. Nasby - Thu at 11:45:32AM -0500]
> > > The issue with pg_xlog is you don't need bandwidth... you need super-low
> > > latency. The best way to accomplish that is to get a battery-backed RAID
> > > controller that you can enable write caching on.
> >
> > Sounds a bit risky to me :-)
>
> Well, you do need to understand what happens if the machine does lose
> power... namely you have a limited amount of time to get power back to
> the machine so that the controller can flush that data out. Other than
> that, it's not very risky.

We have burned ourself more than once due to unreliable raid controllers
...

> quantities of memory. So in your case, 600M wouldn't be pushing things
> much at all. Even 1G wouldn't be that out of the ordinary. Also remember
> that the more memory for shared_buffers, the less for
> sorting/hashes/etc. (work_mem)

What do you mean, a high value for the shared_buffers implicates I
can/should lower the work_mem value?  Or just that I should remember to
have more than enough memory for both work_mem, shared_buffers and OS
caches?  What is a sane value for the work_mem?  It's currently set to
8M.


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