Scott Marlowe <scott.marl...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Jerry Sievers <gsiever...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Briefly, just curious if legacy max values for shared_buffers have >> scaled up since 8G was like 25% of RAM? >> >> Pg 9.3 on monster 2T/192 CPU Xenial thrashing >> >> Upgrade pending but we recently started having $interesting performance >> issues at times looking like I/O slowness and other times apparently >> causing CPU spins. > > Have you looked at things like zone reclaim mode and transparent huge > pages? Both of those can cause odd problems. Also it's usually a good > idea to turn off swap as the linux kernel, presented with lots of ram > and a small (by comparison) swap file sometimes makes bad life choices > and starts using swap for things like storing currently unused shared > buffers or something.
Not sure but we're checking into these items. Thanks -- Jerry Sievers Postgres DBA/Development Consulting e: postgres.consult...@comcast.net p: 312.241.7800 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
