If your nightly process is heavily read-only, then raid5 is probably
fine. If however, there is a significant write component then it would
perhaps be worth getting another disk and converting to raid10
(alternatively - see previous postings about raid cards with on-board
cache). Are you seeing
Tom Lane mentioned :
=> Turn off
=> memory overallocation in your kernel to get more stable behavior when
=> pushing the limits of available memory.
I think this will already help a lot.
Thanks!!
=> If your concern is with a single nightly process, then that quad Xeon is
=> doing squat for you, b
Stef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It seems I was mistaking, as I started getting these kind of errors in dmesg :
> VM: killing process postmaster
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> VM: killing process postmaster
This
