Re: Win32 Backend Cash - pre-existing shared memory block is still in use

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Jeremy Palmer <jpalmer(at)linz(dot)govt(dot)nz>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Win32 Backend Cash - pre-existing shared memory block is still in use
Date: 2010-08-18 16:07:29
Message-ID: 24620.1282147649@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> This is a memory dump and could be unrelated (or maybe not).

>> TopMemoryContext: 268428304 total in 26 blocks; 5528 free (22 chunks); 268422776 used

That's an unreasonably large amount of stuff in TopMemoryContext :-(.
I wonder what caused that? It's not clear that'd have led to the crash
though.

regards, tom lane

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