Re: Hardware upgrade for a high-traffic database

From: Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Jason Coene <jcoene(at)gotfrag(dot)com>
Cc: 'Merlin Moncure' <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>, Postgresql Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hardware upgrade for a high-traffic database
Date: 2004-08-11 21:46:24
Message-ID: 1092260783.16087.96.camel@jester
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> I'm wondering why our PG server is using so little memory... The system has
> 2GB of memory, though only around 200MB of it are used. Is there a PG

This is the second time you've said this. Surely you're not implying
there is 1.8GB Free Memory -- rather than 1.8GB in Buffers or Cache.

Send output of the below:

sysctl vm

sysctl -a | grep buffers

top | grep -E "(Mem|Swap):"

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