> There's quite a lot of stuff that a PG process will cache in local memory
> once it's acquired the info, for example:
> - relcache (relation descriptors)
> - catcache (system catalog entries)
> - compiled trees for plpgsql functions
>
> 300mb worth of that stuff seems on the high side, but perhap
Merlin Moncure writes:
> It's tempting to say, "there should be a limit to backend local cache"
> but it's not clear if the extra tracking is really worth it all things
> considered. There was some discussion about this (see the archives).
Yeah --- there actually was a limit on total catcache si
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Mack Talcott writes:
>> The pattern I am seeing is that postgres processes keep growing in
>> shared (this makes sense as they access more of the shared memory, as
>> you've pointed out) but also process-specific memory as they run more
>> querie
Mack Talcott writes:
> The pattern I am seeing is that postgres processes keep growing in
> shared (this makes sense as they access more of the shared memory, as
> you've pointed out) but also process-specific memory as they run more
> queries. The largest ones are using around 300mb of process-s
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Mack Talcott writes:
>> I am trying to debug some shared memory issues with Postgres 9.3.1 and
>> CentOS release 6.3 (Final). I have a database machine that probably has
>> some misconfigured shared memory settings. It's getting into 2+ GB of
>
Mack Talcott writes:
> I am trying to debug some shared memory issues with Postgres 9.3.1 and
> CentOS release 6.3 (Final). I have a database machine that probably has
> some misconfigured shared memory settings. It's getting into 2+ GB of
> swap. Restarting postgres frees all of the memory, bu
I am trying to debug some shared memory issues with Postgres 9.3.1 and
CentOS release 6.3 (Final). I have a database machine that probably has
some misconfigured shared memory settings. It's getting into 2+ GB of
swap. Restarting postgres frees all of the memory, but after a few hours
of normal
