Nick <t32@2thebatcave.com> wrote:
> Here is a vmstat 1 right after postgres has been started:
>
> procs -----------memory----------
> r b swpd free buff cache
> 0 0 55480 760172 1709424 3758492
> Here is another chunk after it's been running for about 18 hours:
>
> procs -----------memory----------
> r b swpd free buff cache
> 0 0 1812168 20332 59452 102172
> Here is a snapshot of all the postgres processes as listed in top
> (29582 = postgres: autovacuum launcher process):
>
> 29582 pgsql 15 0 8739m 6.7g 1816 S 8.9 86.1 91:10.44
> postgres
Ouch!
I've not seen anything remotely like that. I wonder what's
different....
> As you can see, after a while the system is using a lot of swap.
> The first time I noticed the problem, the swap was up to 12G
> (there is 8GB of ram in this system). I believe postgres was
> running for several days to achieve that much memory utilization.
Is there anything unusual in the logs?
-Kevin
