hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > So, I checked a backend on Linux, and found such thing: > 2ba63c797000-2ba63fa68000 rw-p 2ba63c797000 00:00 0 > Size: 52036 kB > Rss: 51336 kB > Shared_Clean: 0 kB > Shared_Dirty: 0 kB > Private_Clean: 0 kB > Private_Dirty: 51336 kB > Swap: 0 kB > Pss: 51336 kB > > (this is part of /proc/<pid>/smaps). > > This is not shared memory, so it's local. It's not related to any files (in > such case first line would > have path to file). > > What's more - this backend, during getting smaps copy was idle, and it's not > stats manager, or > anything like this. > > How can this be diagnosed, to find out why there is so much private > memory? > > In case it matters: it's pg 9.1.6 on linux 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5
What libraries are loaded in this backend (lsof)? Maybe it's something non-PostgreSQL that's hogging the memory. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
