On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:30 PM, <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All > > > I recently made a change to my Postgres Server and upped the max_fsm_page > size to 60000 > Since then, Postgres has been using about 30-80MB of swap space. > > This box has 4GB of RAM. All up Postgres has not been allocated no more > than 3G > > Is this swapping something to be worried about? I recommend turning swappiness down in linux that should stop pg from getting prematurely swapped out like that.