On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:24:35AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Definitely try raising sysctl vfs.vm_cycle_point as Sam suggested. This > can be done on a live system. I would like to try to avoid ripping > up the buffer cache this close to release.
I can understand that. > Try setting it to 40 (it defaults to 23). The max value is 64 > which will effectively put all non-memory-mapped file data on the > inactive queue, including any data which is repeatedly accessed. Done. I raised it previously to 30 (I think) and still had a crash. FWIW, this machine is also running a postgres server. -- Francois Tigeot
