Re: Urgent -- High memory usage on PostgreSQL server

From: Paul McGarry <paul(at)paulmcgarry(dot)com>
To: savio rodriges <sj_savio(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Urgent -- High memory usage on PostgreSQL server
Date: 2010-12-13 06:16:45
Message-ID: AANLkTinySYf1ehHRTvTEnkLps=2fpXNkhiNSHwsNA5gg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:49 PM, savio rodriges <sj_savio(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are facing very HIGH memory utilization on postgreSQL server and need
> help.
>
> Mem: 8165696k total, 7943160k used, 222536k free, 282044k buffers
> Swap: 8385920k total, 112828k used, 8273092k free, 4793732k cached
>

What makes you say memory usage is high?

You have ~8gb of memory.
Less than 3gb of that is being used by applications and the OS is using the
"spare" 5gb for caching and buffers.

Paul

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