Mark Kirkwood wrote:
Kevin Schroeder wrote:
Ignoring the fact that the sort and vacuum numbers are really high, this is what Solaris shows me when running top:
Memory: 2048M real, 1376M free, 491M swap in use, 2955M swap free
Maybe check the swap usage with 'swap -l' which reports reliably if any (device or file) swap is actually used.
I think Solaris 'top' does some strange accounting to calculate the 'swap in use' value (like including used memory).
It looks to me like you are using no (device or file) swap at all, and
have 1.3G of real memory free, so could in fact give Postgres more of it :-)
I suspect that "free" memory is in fact being used for the file system cache. There were some changes in the meaning of "free" in Solaris 8 and 9. The memstat command gives a nice picture of memory usage on the system. I don't think memstat came with Solaris 8, but you can get it from solarisinternals.com. The Solaris Internals book is an excellent read as well; it explains all of this in gory detail.
Note that files in /tmp are usually in a tmpfs file system. These files may be the usage of swap that you're seeing (as they will be paged out on an active system with some memory pressure)
Finally, just as everyone suggests upgrading to newer postgresql releases, you probably want to get to a newer Solaris release.
-- Alan
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