Re: postgres writer process growing up too much

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Heiner Vega <hvegat(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgres writer process growing up too much
Date: 2007-12-14 17:48:27
Message-ID: 4762C1EB.8080006@archonet.com
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Heiner Vega wrote:
> Hi to everyone
>
> I've been monitoring my postgres processes and I noticed that the resident
> memory
> size of the writer process is growing up too much.

> YESTERDAY:
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND

> 11419 postgres 15 0 155m 112m 112m S 0.0 3.0 0:00.49 postgres:
> writer process
>
> TODAY:
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND

> 11419 postgres 15 0 155m 140m 139m S 0.0 3.7 0:01.09 postgres:
> writer process

Notice the "SHR"=shared value. That's 155MB virtual memory, 140MB of it
resident of which 139MB is shared with other processes. So - nothing to
worry about.

--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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