On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Shaun Thomas <sthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/20/2012 04:08 PM, Jeff Janes wrote: > >> Shaun Thomas reports one that is (I assume) not read intensive, but >> his diagnosis is that this is a kernel bug where a larger >> shared_buffers for no good reason causes the kernel to kill off its >> page cache. > > > We're actually very read intensive. Sorry, that is what I meant. I wrote "not write intensive", then decided it would be clearer to change "not write" to "read" and then forgot to remove the "not". I hate it when that happens. Atomic update commit failure in the meatware :) Cheers, Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general