October 2014
Intermediate to advanced
142 pages
3h 9m
English
Many users run PostgreSQL on Linux. In case you are running more than just PostgreSQL on your system, it can be a good idea to sandbox PostgreSQL in a Linux kernel control group (cgroup) to make sure that the operating system statistics for PostgreSQL are somewhat isolated from the rest of the system. Sandboxing also makes a lot of sense, if there is more than one PostgreSQL instance on the same box. The key benefits are:
All these benefits make cgroups an investment worthwhile.
Before we can dig into configuring cgroups, it is necessary ...