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Re: heavy swapping, not sure why

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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On August 29, 2011 01:36:07 PM Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> I have several Linux-x68_64 based dedicated PostgreSQL servers where
>> I'm experiencing significant swap usage growth over time.
>
> It's the Linux kernel that does it, not PostgreSQL. Set vm.swappiness=0
> (usually in /etc/sysctl.conf) and put that into effect.

that won't help and, in almost all cases, is a bad idea.

merlin

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