This is postgres 8.4 BTW.
It says 2.9Gb of RESIDENT memory, that also seems to be shared. Is
this the writer sharing the records it wrote in a shared buffer?
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND
11088 postgres 13 -2 3217m 3.0g 3.0g S0 39.5 0:14.23 postgres
On 8/12/09 9:44 PM, "Alex" wrote:
> The writer process seems to be using inordinate amounts of memory:
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+
> COMMAND
> 11088 postgres 13 -2 3217m 2.9g 2.9g S0 38.7 0:10.46 postgres:
> writer process
> 20190 postgres 13 -2 3
Alex wrote:
> The writer process seems to be using inordinate amounts of memory:
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+
> COMMAND
> 11088 postgres 13 -2 3217m 2.9g 2.9g S0 38.7 0:10.46 postgres:
> writer process
> 20190 postgres 13 -2 3219m 71m 68m S0 0.9
The writer process seems to be using inordinate amounts of memory:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+
COMMAND
11088 postgres 13 -2 3217m 2.9g 2.9g S0 38.7 0:10.46 postgres:
writer process
20190 postgres 13 -2 3219m 71m 68m S0 0.9 0:52.48 postgres:
cribq