On Mon, 2021-06-14 at 18:16 +0800, Yi Sun wrote:
> After checking doc, only mentioned vm.overcommit_memory=2, but didn't 
> mentioned vm.overcommit_ratio recommended value
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/kernel-resources.html#LINUX-MEMORY-OVERCOMMIT
> some articles mentioned that 80 or 90 configuration in their env
> So is it OK just to configure  vm.overcommit_ratio to 90 please?

It depends on the size of RAM and swap space:

overcommit_ratio < (RAM - swap) / RAM * 100

Here, RAM is the RAM available to PostgreSQL.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com



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