Re: Safe vm.overcommit_ratio for Large Multi-Instance PostgreSQL Fleet

2025-08-19 Thread Frédéric Yhuel
On 8/19/25 17:37, Frits Hoogland wrote: The specific issue I see in certain cases leading to unreasonable swap usage is Linux workingset detection kicking in Do you have a way to highlight that precisely? I mean, can you prove that it is Linux workingset detection that is causing swapping?

Re: Safe vm.overcommit_ratio for Large Multi-Instance PostgreSQL Fleet

2025-08-19 Thread Frits Hoogland
Thank you for your message Frederic, I am very much aware of that issue. It’s actually incorrect to say that is a bug: that is how cgroupsv1, which is bundled with rhel8, works. However, it is very counter intuitive. For that reason redhat created the force_cgroup_v2_swappiness parameter unique