On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 09:46:22AM -0500, Don Seiler wrote: > ==> /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run <== > 0 Was it off to begin with ? If not, you can set it to "2" to "unshare" pages. > ==> /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag <== > 1 So I'd suggest trying with this disabled. I don't know if I ever fully understood the problem, but it sounds like at least in your case it's related to large shared_buffers, and hugepages, which cannot be swapped out. -- Justin