greigwise wrote: > All right.. one more thing here. Any suggestions for how to set overcommit > on a postgres db server with 16 GB of RAM and no swap? I think I want > vm.overcommit_memory = 2, as I understand that prevents the OOM killer from > zapping me. Is 100% the right way to go for overcommit_ratio? Is there a > drawback to this? vm.overcommit_memory = 2 vm_overcommit_ratio = 100 Linux commits (swap * overcommit_ratio * RAM / 100), so without any swap the correct value would be 100. I don't know how safe it is to got entirely without swap. I would add a little bit just to be sure. Yours, Laurenz Albe
