Excerpts from Alvaro Herrera's message of lun dic 12 17:20:39 -0300 2011: > I found that this is caused by mxid_to_string being leaked all over the > place :-( I "fixed" it by making the returned string be a static that's > malloced and then freed on the next call. There's still virtsize growth > (not sure it's a legitimate leak) with that, but it's much smaller.
this fixes the remaining leaks. AFAICS it now grows to a certain point and it's fixed size after that. I was able to share-lock a 10M rows table with a 30MB RSS process. diff --git a/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c b/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c index 49d3369..7069950 100644 --- a/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c +++ b/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c @@ -3936,6 +3936,8 @@ l3: keep_xmax = xwait; keep_xmax_multi = true; } + + pfree(members); } } else if (infomask & HEAP_XMAX_KEYSHR_LOCK) @@ -4693,6 +4695,9 @@ GetMultiXactIdHintBits(MultiXactId multi) if (!has_update) bits |= HEAP_XMAX_IS_NOT_UPDATE; + if (nmembers > 0) + pfree(members); + return bits; } @@ -4743,6 +4748,8 @@ HeapTupleGetUpdateXid(HeapTupleHeader tuple) break; #endif } + + pfree(members); } return update_xact; -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers