Re: memory leak under heavy load? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From surabhi.ahuja
Subject Re: memory leak under heavy load?
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Msg-id 967CFC4343BF2A4DAFACD026D33DC85118EC96@jal.iiitb.ac.in
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In response to memory leak under heavy load?  (hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: memory leak under heavy load?  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>)
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even i have observed memory leaks ... is it happening in postgres side
 
i can send the valgrind logs 


From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org on behalf of hubert depesz lubaczewski
Sent: Wed 11/30/2005 12:59 PM
To: Jim C. Nasby
Cc: PostgreSQL General
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] memory leak under heavy load?

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On 11/29/05, Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com> wrote:
Are you sure this isn't just PostgreSQL caching data?

i am not sure. but what bothers me is:
i setup limit of shared memory to 50000 buffers - which gives estimate 400 megabytes. how come it ended up using 6GB ?

depesz

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