[GENERAL] kswapd 100%, swap full, vm.swappiness=0

2010-10-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
Hardware: 48 core AMD Magny Cours (4x12) 128G 1333MHz memory 34 15k6 drives, 2 hot spares, rest in RAID-1 pairs, 1 set for OS, 4 for pg_xlog, rest for /data/base LSI RAID controller OS: Ubuntu 10.04 uname -a Linux bigassdbserver 2.6.32-24-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jul 5 09:20:59 UTC 2010

Re: [GENERAL] kswapd 100%, swap full, vm.swappiness=0

2010-10-07 Thread Allan Kamau
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com wrote: Hardware: 48 core AMD Magny Cours (4x12) 128G 1333MHz memory 34 15k6 drives, 2 hot spares, rest in RAID-1 pairs, 1 set for OS, 4 for pg_xlog, rest for /data/base LSI RAID controller OS: Ubuntu 10.04 uname

Re: [GENERAL] kswapd 100%, swap full, vm.swappiness=0

2010-10-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Allan Kamau kamaual...@gmail.com wrote: My wild guess is that Ubuntu may be to blame. Try restarting PG and chances are that it would not solve the problem, meaning that it is most likely an OS issue. I had similar experiences on PostgreSQL server hosted on