Re: memory consumption of memory for postgres db container

You may checkout using "free -m" and may see how much memory is cache.

If you are using RHEL, you may clear cache using below commands.

sync; echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; sync

Though this is going to release some memory from the cache, it may fill up
the cache again.

Regards,
Ninad Shah

On Thu, 2 Sept 2021 at 20:41, M Tarkeshwar Rao <
m(dot)tarkeshwar(dot)rao(at)ericsson(dot)com> wrote:

> Can you please suggest few commands?
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> Regards
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> Tarkeshwar
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> *From:* Ninad Shah <nshah(dot)postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 2, 2021 8:30 PM
> *To:* M Tarkeshwar Rao <m(dot)tarkeshwar(dot)rao(at)ericsson(dot)com>
> *Cc:* pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> *Subject:* Re: memory consumption of memory for postgres db container
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> No need to worry. This isn't really a concern.
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> No operating system releases memory upon using it, but caches it once the
> program finishes. This actually saves time as memory blocks can be
> allocated in less time than loading new blocks.
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> However, if it's required to release memory, it can be performed via a few
> commands.
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> Regards,
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> Ninad Shah
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> On Thu, 2 Sept 2021 at 20:05, M Tarkeshwar Rao <
> m(dot)tarkeshwar(dot)rao(at)ericsson(dot)com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> We did a stability test for our product, where we continuously inserting
> data into postgres tables. We did this for three days continuously.
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> Memory utilization of our Postgres container continuously increasing.
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> Can you please provide us the clue why it is not constant and continuously
> increasing?
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> Regards
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> Tarkeshwar
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