Re: What happens at BIND time?

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: What happens at BIND time?
Date: 2013-08-28 18:44:22
Message-ID: 521E4506.9060509@agliodbs.com
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Tom,

> Does the backend's memory usage climb, or hold steady? If the former,
> I'd bet on client failure to release resources, eg not closing the
> portals when done with them. A memory map from MemoryContextStats
> would help determine exactly what's leaking.

FS cache usage increases through the test run, as you'd expect, but the
amount of pinned memory actually remains pretty much constant -- and has
the same usage in both 8.4 (where the BIND issue doesn't happen) and
9.3b2 (where it does).

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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