Hi,
On 2024-09-24 16:58:11 +0900, DBA wrote:
> 1. A description of what you are trying to achieve and what results you expect
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> We set shared_buffer = 70GB, max_connections = 300, work_mem = 300MB.
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> We thought the session memory could be adjusted with the work_mem variable, but
> no. noticed that each session consumed more than 500MB.
How did you determine you're using a lot of memory in each session? Unless you
use huge pages, the first access to a shared memory page in a process will
start to attribute the shared memory to the RES (or RSS) of a process as shown
in top/ps.
See
https://postgr.es/m/p3wmyj7cllclyxgebcqilds5f25yfuyozwerel4no54k5oro6f%40ly5ivt67icfb
for a bit more detail.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
