Re: autovacuum launcher process eating up 17G+ of ram? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: autovacuum launcher process eating up 17G+ of ram?
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In response to autovacuum launcher process eating up 17G+ of ram?  (Nick <t32@2thebatcave.com>)
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Nick <t32@2thebatcave.com> wrote:
> I have a production server running postgres 8.3.11.  I did a dump all
> and loaded up postgres 9.0.1 on another server.  On the new server,
> the postgres autovacuum launcher process eats up an insane amount of
> ram (I have seen 17G virt with 6.5G res).  On the older version, it's
> at a reasonable 9MB res after running for a month straight.

What's you're shared_buffers set to?

What does VIRT, RES and SHR?  Is SHR really big?  If RES is close to
SHR, then don't worry too much.

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