[ADMIN] how do you manage postgres 9's postgres process's memory

2011-02-12 Thread Keith Gabryelski
I've noticed my postgres processes have been increasing their memory usage. this seems to happen because my clients applications are using connection pooling and until one of the clients forces a connection reset the postgres process does not release its memory. I'd love to understand how to manag

Re: [ADMIN] PG 9 OpenLDAP 2.4 dependency ? (in a jam)

2011-02-12 Thread Lou Picciano
Hard to know without a lot more info - ...any number of things could be culprit - from 'simple' config issue right up through schema definition. Lou - Original Message - From: "mark" To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 6:12:10 PM Subject: [ADMIN] PG

Re: [ADMIN] increased load on server

2011-02-12 Thread Kevin Grittner
jf wrote: >>> I tried to restart postgresql server and to reboot the server, >>> but 5 minutes later, the trouble was here again. >> >> Any idea what changed during those 5 minutes? > 5 minutes: just the time for my users to reconnect to my frontend. > max_fsm_pages = 153600 Probably not the

Re: [ADMIN] increased load on server

2011-02-12 Thread jf
Hi, >> I tried to tune posgresql.conf to use more memory. > Right before the problems started? Yes two years ago. >> postgresql processes eat my server >> ressources, my load, which was between 0 and 2.5 on my 4 cpus >> server, grows to 20. > > The output from `vmstat 1` during such an episod

[ADMIN] PG 9 OpenLDAP 2.4 dependency ? (in a jam)

2011-02-12 Thread mark
Is this true ? I am having trouble finding the documentation on this. Thanks for someone with better google-foo than me if they can find it, and maybe why? I have an LDAP master running 2.3.(something) on a box and it is looking like getting that to 2.4 is a no-go. Postgres does not auth with