Re: postgres in swap space

On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 09:49:59PM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-11-17 at 18:25 +0100, Marc Millas wrote:
> > Can someone point me to any doc describing why and how much space postgres uses on the swap of a debian machine ?
> > it's an old postgres 10, because it is used by a product for which only this version is certified.
> > (no comment on that, please)
> 
> I'm biting down a comment.
> 
> PostgreSQL itself doesn't use any swap space.
> 
> The kernel can decide to swap out memory used by PostgreSQL.  How much that is depends
> on how you configured the Linux kernel and how much memory PostgreSQL uses.  The latter
> is mostly determined by "shared_buffers", "work_mem", "maintenance_work_mem" and
> "max_connections".

I wrote a blog entry about swap space:

    https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2012.html#July_25_2012

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