Jon, > Any help you can give in this would be extrememly helpful as I'm very > far from an expert on Linux filesystems and postgres tuning.
See Tom's response; it may be that you don't have an issue at all. If you do, it's probably the kernel, not the FS. 2.6.8 and a few other 2.6.single-digit kernels had memory leaks in shmem that would cause gradually escalating swappage. The solution to that one is to upgrade to 2.6.11. -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org