On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:42 AM, David Kerr <dmk(at)mr-paradox(dot)net> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> just a quick check, is
> vm.overcommit_memory = 2
> vm.swappiness = 0
>
> Still the way to go with PG9.0 / RHEL 6.1 (64bit) ?
If you've got lots of ram, it's better off to throw a "swapoff -a" at
the end of rc.local, as I found that on large mem machines with late
model kernels, setting swappiness to 0 I still had the occasionaly
kswapd storm being my production servers to their knees.