Re: Vacuum process idle but hogging memory 8.2.4 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Vacuum process idle but hogging memory 8.2.4
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Msg-id 24669.1188848409@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Vacuum process idle but hogging memory 8.2.4  (Henrik <henke@mac.se>)
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Henrik <henke@mac.se> writes:
> I'm already started to redesign the database to avoid the hugh number
> of rows in this big table but I'm still curious why autovacuum hogs
> over 200MB when it is not running?

On what do you base that assertion?

> Is it the shared_buffers?

Well, 128M in shared buffers plus 64M maintenance_work_mem would go
a long way towards explaining a 200M process address space, but it's
hardly "hogging" the shared buffers.

            regards, tom lane

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