On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 02:13:58PM -0300, Claudio Freire wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 6:20 AM, Charles Nadeau > > <charles.nadeau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Claudio, > >> > >> At one moment > >> during the query, there is a write storm to the swap drive (a bit like this > >> case: > >> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/AANLkTi%3Diw4fC2RgTxhw0aGpyXANhOT%3DXBnjLU1_v6PdA%40mail.gmail.com). > >> I can hardly explain it as there is plenty of memory on this server. > > > > That sounds a lot like NUMA zone_reclaim issues: > > > > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/500616CB.3070408@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > I realize you have zone_reclaim_mode set to 0. Still, the symptoms are > eerily similar. Did you look at disabling KSM and/or THP ? sudo sh -c 'echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run' https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170524155855.GH31097%40telsasoft.com https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CANQNgOrD02f8mR3Y8Pi=zFsoL14RqNQA8hwz1r4rSnDLr1b2Cw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHyXU0y9hviyKWvQZxX5UWfH9M2LYvwvAOPQ_DUPva2b71t12g%40mail.gmail.com https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20130716195834.8fe5c79249cb2ff0d4270b3e@xxxxxxxx https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAE_gQfW3dBiELcOppYN6v%3D8%2B%2BpEeywD7iXGw-OT3doB8SXO4_A%40mail.gmail.com https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1436268563235-5856914.post%40n5.nabble.com#1436268563235-5856914.post@xxxxxxxxxxxxx https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAL_0b1tJOZCx3Lo3Eve1RqGaT%2BJJ_Q7w4pkJ87WfWwXbTugnxw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/556E2068.7070007@xxxxxxxx https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1415981309.90631.YahooMailNeo%40web133205.mail.ir2.yahoo.com https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHyXU0yXYpCXN4%3D81ZDRQu-oGzrcq2qNAXDpyz4oiQPPAGk4ew%40mail.gmail.com https://www.pythian.com/blog/performance-tuning-hugepages-in-linux/ http://structureddata.org/2012/06/18/linux-6-transparent-huge-pages-and-hadoop-workloads/ Justin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance