Re: shared_buffers on ubuntu precise

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 02:01:45PM -0600, Shaun Thomas wrote:
> On 11/30/2012 01:57 PM, Ben Chobot wrote:
>
> >Hm, this sounds like something we should look into. Before we start
> >digging do you have more to share, or did you leave it with the "huh,
> >that's weird; this seems to fix it" solution?
>
> We're still testing. We're still on the -31 kernel. We tried the -33
> kernel which *might* fix it, but then this happened:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1084264
>
> So now we're testing -34 which is currently proposed. Either way,
> it's pretty clear that Ubuntu's choice of patches to backport is
> rather eclectic and a little wonky, or that nailing down load
> calculations went awry since the NOHZ stuff started, or both. At
> this point, I wish we'd stayed on CentOS.

Or Debian.  Not sure what would justify use of Ubuntu as a server,
except wanting to have the exact same OS as their personal computers.

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