Re: Memory usage of writer process - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Alex wrote:
> The writer process seems to be using inordinate amounts of memory:
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+
> COMMAND
> 11088 postgres  13  -2 3217m 2.9g 2.9g S    0 38.7   0:10.46 postgres:
> writer process
> 20190 postgres  13  -2 3219m  71m  68m S    0  0.9   0:52.48 postgres:
> cribq cribq [local] idle
>
> I am writing moderately large (~3k) records to my database a few times
> a second.  Even when I stop doing that, the process continues to take
> up all of that memory.
>
> Am I reading this right?  Why is it using so much memory?

shared_buffers?

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