Re: Postgres is eating up all my memory

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: ml ml <mliebherr99(at)googlemail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres is eating up all my memory
Date: 2009-08-14 20:06:13
Message-ID: dcc563d10908141306o36286ec0tdc7f1f41d0e79642@mail.gmail.com
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Oh I see that work_mem etc are in the pastebin. Yeah, 128M is pretty
high work_mem if all 75 connections are working hard that's 9.6Gig of
ram. which you haven't got.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Scott Marlowe<scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:04 AM, ml ml<mliebherr99(at)googlemail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hello List,
>>
>> postgres 8.2 is not doing too much but eating up all my memory:
>> http://pastebin.com/m4cf22ee2
>> The postgresql.conf is at the very bottom of the pastebin.
>>
>> I guess this is a configuration issue. The CPUs are almost 100% idle
>> but i seem to run out of memory.
>>
>> Any idea what i could do here?
>
> Post what has been changed from the defaults on postgresql.conf. I'm
> guessing work_mem is a little big, but that's just a guess.
>

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