Re: 64 Bit / Swap Issue?

["Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

James Dey wrote:
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> Hi Guys,
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> We have been running our systems on high end Redhat ES 32 Bit servers 
> without any sort of glitch. We have now set up a 64 bit Athlon server 
> running Redhat ES, installed the Redhat PgSQL as well as the PHP5 RPM.
Do the machines have a different amount of RAM? There is no reason that 
a 32 bit machine versus a 64bit machines should swap noticeably more 
unless something has changed.

> /“Secondly "sar" is showing that you are dipping quite a bit into your 
> swap space. When dealing with a database server, any time that you 
> move from RAM to swap you will see a massive performance drop, 
> especially when dealing with as much swap as this machine has. At its 
> peak you were hitting 70%(700M) of swap. Since PostgreSQL is 
> unsupported I don't have any suggestions on query optimizations. 
> However, at this point upgrading your available RAM would be one of my 
> best suggestions.”/
Well there response is correct but the question is why are you hitting 
swap. Please see my quseton above.
> Does anyone have any experience on this? Most of the things I have 
> read suggest that I move back to 32 bit but I do think it’s a step 
> backward – that’s if this can be supported.

There is no reason for you to move back to 32bit.

Joshua D. Drake