On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Even with fairly late model linux kernels (i.e. >> 10.04 LTS through 11.04) I've watched the kswapd start up swapping >> hard on a machine with zero memory pressure and no need for swap. >> Took about 2 weeks of hard running before kswapd decided to act >> pathological. > > Perhaps you had some overfull partitions in tmpfs? Nope. Didn't use tmpfs for anything on that machine. Stock Ubuntu 10.04 with Postgres just doing simple but high traffic postgres stuff. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance