Re: Postgress memory leak with JBoss3.2.6 and large DB

On 31-Aug-06, at 1:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Indika Maligaspe" <indika(at)rezgateway(dot)com> writes:
>> The problem is when we are querying a specific set of table (which
>> all
>> tables having over 100K of rows), the Postgres user process takes
>> over or
>> close 700MB of memory. This is just to return 3000 odd rows. Even
>> though we
>> have lot of data we still do not have that much to eat up this
>> much of
>> memory.
>
> Playing with server-side settings won't have the slightest effect on a
> client-side problem. I'd suggest asking about this on the pgsql-jdbc
> list; they are more likely to have useful suggestions than backend
> hackers will.

What is the query here. I doubt this is a client side problem, as we
are still looking at the server side processes, not the java
processes here.

Also your memory settings are *way* too low
Dave
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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