| From: | Gregor Mosheh <stigmata(at)blackangel(dot)net> |
|---|---|
| To: | Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: memory strangeness (fwd) |
| Date: | 2002-07-07 17:14:03 |
| Message-ID: | 20020707101235.G61642-100000@osiris.deathkeep.com |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-admin |
> > kern.ipc.shm_use_phys) On this particular system, though, it's doing
> > nothing except PG. 384 MB of RAM, I can give PG 160 of it, which leaves me
> > with some 170 MB of idle RAM.
> No, that's not idle RAM; that's buffer cache. (FreeBSD, like most
> modern Unix operating systems, will use any spare physical memory
Oh, of course! How silly of me to forget that! You're entirely right.
> It's not a sysctl, because those limits are settable per-process.
> Use "ulimit -aS" to check the current (soft) limits, and "ulimit
> -aH" to check the hard limits (beyond which the soft limits may
> not be raised). Also see the getrlimit manpage.
I shall. Thanks a lot!
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | ozric tentacle | 2002-07-07 18:34:47 | HELP FOR POSTGRESQL NEEDED... |
| Previous Message | Rajesh Kumar Mallah. | 2002-07-07 13:29:01 | Re: Which DB is using space. |