tuned.conf

#
# tuned configuration for PostgresSQL servers
# /etc/tuned/postgres-db-server/tuned.conf
#

[main]
summary=Optimize for PostgreSQL server
include=throughput-performance

[cpu]
force_latency=1
governor=performance
energy_perf_bias=performance
min_perf_pct=100

[vm]
transparent_hugepages=never

[sysctl]
# ktune sysctl settings for rhel6 servers, maximizing i/o throughput
#
# Minimal preemption granularity for CPU-bound tasks:
# (default: 1 msec#  (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
kernel.sched_min_granularity_ns=10000000

# The dirty_background_ratio and dirty_ratio controls percentage of memory
# that file system cache have to fill with dirty data before kernel will
# will start to flush data to disks. The default values are 10% and 20%
# accordingly. On a systems with a big amount of memory this values can
# be tens of gigabytes and produce IO spikes when PostgreSQL server writes
# checkpoints.
#
# Keep this values reasonable small - about size of RAID contrller write-back
# cache size (typcal 512MB - 2GB).
vm.dirty_background_ratio = 0
vm.dirty_ratio = 0
vm.dirty_background_bytes = 67108864
vm.dirty_bytes = 536870912

# The swappiness parameter controls the tendency of the kernel to move
# processes out of physical memory and onto the swap disk.
# 0 tells the kernel to avoid swapping processes out of physical memory
# for as long as possible
# 100 tells the kernel to aggressively swap processes out of physical memory
# and move them to swap cache
vm.swappiness=3

# The total time the scheduler will consider a migrated process
# "cache hot" and thus less likely to be re-migrated
# (system default is 500000, i.e. 0.5 ms)
kernel.sched_migration_cost_ns=50000000

# The autogroup feature of the CFS
# (system default is 1, e.q enabled)
kernel.sched_autogroup_enabled = 0