What's using all my RAM? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From adey
Subject What's using all my RAM?
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Msg-id 1c66bda80608012109x125180eeh38674c853ea50434@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: What's using all my RAM?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: What's using all my RAM?  (Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>)
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Please could someone tell me how to discover what is using all of my RAM?
I am trying to run a vacuum against Postgres, but it fails immediately with:-
 
"ERROR:  out of memory
DETAIL:  Failed on request of size 1073741820."
 
TOP shows the following:-
Mem:   4077544k total,  3897868k used,   179676k free,   146960k buffers
Swap:  2000084k total,      440k used,  1999644k free,  3352892k cached
None of the listed processes appear to be using more than 1 or 2% MEM.
 
Postgres v7.4.2 (upgrade underway)

 

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