What is the output of 'free -m' ? Look at the third column second row (+/-
cache). This is the most relevant number. Even if you are swapping that can
happen with plenty of RAM available if 'swappiness' is set too low.
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> On May 20, 2015, at 2:25 AM, Sachin Srivastava <ssr.teleat...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Dear Concern,
>
> Always my server memory utilization is remain >99%. I have 4 DB server and
> RAM of the server is (32 GB, 64 GB, 64 GB and 132 GB). In every server always
> we are getting the memory utilization > 99%. Kindly suggest why this problem
> is and which parameter will resolve this problem.
>
> I am using PostgreSQL 9.1.2 and PostGIS 1.5 version on every Red hat Linux
> server. Kindly find the "TOP" result, "ulimit -a" result, ("kernel.shmax",
> "kernel.shmall", "kernel.sem" value) and pg_setting result of one server as
> below. If you require any other information then inform to me.
>
>
> [root@CPPMOMA_DB01 ~]# top
> top - 12:08:08 up 15 days, 15:45, 5 users, load average: 1.05, 1.19, 1.35
> Tasks: 605 total, 1 running, 604 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 6.9%us, 2.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 78.3%id, 12.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
> Mem: 32832364k total, 32621168k used, 211196k free, 77572k buffers
>
>
> [root@CPPMOMA_DB01 ~]# ulimit -a
> core file size (blocks, -c) 0
> data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
> scheduling priority (-e) 0
> file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
> pending signals (-i) 256323
> max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64
> max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> open files (-n) 4096
> pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
> POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
> real-time priority (-r) 0
> stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240
> cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
> max user processes (-u) 256323
> virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
> file locks (-x) unlimited
> [root@CPPMOMA_DB01 ~]#
>
>
> kernel.shmmax = 32212254720
>
> kernel.shmall = 1073741824
>
> kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 384
>
>
> postgres=# SELECT name, source, setting FROM pg_settings WHERE source !=
> 'default' AND source != 'override' ORDER by 2, 1;
>
> name | source | setting
> ----------------------------+----------------------+----------------------------------
> application_name | client | psql.bin
> client_encoding | client | UTF8
> archive_command | configuration file | cp %p
> /dbkup/momacpp_213_live/%f
> archive_mode | configuration file | on
> autovacuum | configuration file | on
> autovacuum_max_workers | configuration file | 3
> checkpoint_segments | configuration file | 200
> checkpoint_timeout | configuration file | 300
> checkpoint_warning | configuration file | 30
> DateStyle | configuration file | ISO, MDY
> default_text_search_config | configuration file | pg_catalog.english
> effective_cache_size | configuration file | 524288
> lc_messages | configuration file | en_US.UTF-8
> lc_monetary | configuration file | en_US.UTF-8
> lc_numeric | configuration file | en_US.UTF-8
> lc_time | configuration file | en_US.UTF-8
> listen_addresses | configuration file | *
> log_destination | configuration file | stderr
> log_directory | configuration file | pg_log
> logging_collector | configuration file | on
> log_line_prefix | configuration file | %t
> log_rotation_age | configuration file | 1440
> maintenance_work_mem | configuration file | 1638400
> max_connections | configuration file | 2000
> max_files_per_process | configuration file | 2000
> max_wal_senders | configuration file | 5
> port | configuration file | 5432
> shared_buffers | configuration file | 1572864
> temp_buffers | configuration file | 4096
> wal_level | configuration file | archive
> work_mem | configuration file | 32768
> log_timezone | environment variable | Asia/Kolkata
> max_stack_depth | environment variable | 2048
> TimeZone | environment variable | Asia/Kolkata
> (34 rows)
>
> postgres=#
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Sachin Srivastava
> Assistant Technical Lead(Oracle/PostgreSQL) | TSG
> Cyient | www.cyient.com
