Re: Pg+Linux swap use

Jeff wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:49:08 -0200 (BRST)
> "alexandre :: aldeia digital" <alepaes@aldeiadigital.com.br> wrote:
>
>
>>Both use: Only postgresql on server. Buffers = 8192, effective cache =
>>100000
> Well, I'm assuming you meant 1GB of ram, not 1MB :)
>
> Check a ps auxw to see what is running. Perhaps X is running gobbling up
> your precious mem.  But still.. with 1GB there should be virtually no
> swap activity.
>
> How busy is the DB? How many connections?
>
> and is sort_mem set high?

Also are two kernels exactly same? In my experience linux kernel behaves
slightly different from version to version w.r.t swap aggressiveness...

  Shridhar