Marco and Scott, Thanks for your answers. The Swappiness web link was great. Lance -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marco Nietz Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 12:37 AM To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Memory and Swap Linux tends to swap out to early with the default settings of swappiness, try to decrease it to 10 or 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swappiness Marco Am 10.05.2016 um 22:23 schrieb Campbell, Lance: > PostgreSQL 9.5.2 > > Linux Red Hat > > I have 10 G of memory. Nagios is saying I have 2 G used and 8 G free. > > Yet my swap is at 1 G. > > 1)Why is that? > > 2)Over that past week it has climbed from almost nothing to 1 G. It > is a steady climb. No big jump. > > Thanks, > > Lance > -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
