Re: Question about buffers_alloc in pg_stat_bgwriter view formonitoring - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvar C.H. Freude
Subject Re: Question about buffers_alloc in pg_stat_bgwriter view formonitoring
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Msg-id 821181C7-4056-4544-B0D3-4A3E71267628@wen-waehlen.de
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In response to Re: Question about buffers_alloc in pg_stat_bgwriter view formonitoring  ("Gunnar \"Nick\" Bluth" <gunnar.bluth@pro-open.de>)
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Hi,

> Am 29.03.2018 um 10:30 schrieb Gunnar Nick Bluth <gunnar.bluth@pro-open.de>:
>
> Thus, buffer_alloc is the global count of buffers allocated in the
> cluster. That it appears in the bgwriter statistics is more or less
> coincidental.

So it is the number of shared_buffers used?

This isn’t possible:

postgres=# SELECT buffers_alloc*current_setting('block_size')::numeric/1024/1024/1024,
current_setting('shared_buffers')FROM pg_stat_bgwriter; 
      ?column?        | current_setting
-----------------------+-----------------
1219.7707748413085938 | 64450MB
(1 row)


About 64 GB shared buffers and 1219 used? ;-)


Or other machine:

      ?column?       | current_setting
----------------------+-----------------
126.4642944335937500 | 64450MB
(1 row)


My Private:

      ?column?      | current_setting
--------------------+-----------------
 3.3014221191406250 | 6GB
(1 Zeile)




Ciao
  Alvar

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