On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Laurent Laborde wrote:
> Friendly greetings !
> I found something "odd" (something that i can't explain) this weekend.
>
> An octocore server with 32GB of ram, running postgresql 8.3.6
> Running only postgresql, slony-I and pgbouncer.
>
> Just for testing purpose, i
Sorry for top-posting - the iphone mail client sucks.
I think what's happening is that the sytem is seeing that some pages
of shared memory haven't been used recently and because there's more
shared memory than filesystem cache less recently than the filesystem
cache pages. So it pages out
Friendly greetings !
I found something "odd" (something that i can't explain) this weekend.
An octocore server with 32GB of ram, running postgresql 8.3.6
Running only postgresql, slony-I and pgbouncer.
Just for testing purpose, i tried a setting with 26GB of shared_buffer.
I quickly noticed that