Is there any negative effects by doing this? The swappiness is sitting on the default 60 at the moment. On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:46:13 -0600, "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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.
