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
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
> 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