Re: Postgres && Swap

Is there any negative effects by doing this?

The swappiness is sitting on the default 60 at the moment.

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:46:13 -0600, "Scott Marlowe"
<scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:30 PM,  <steve@outtalimits.com.au> wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>>
>> I recently made a change to my Postgres Server and upped the
> max_fsm_page
>> size to 60000
>> Since then, Postgres has been using about 30-80MB of swap space.
>>
>> This box has 4GB of RAM. All up Postgres has not been allocated no more
>> than 3G
>>
>> Is this swapping something to be worried about?
>
> I recommend  turning swappiness down in linux that should stop pg from
> getting prematurely swapped out like that.