Re: postgres memory management

Thank you for your answer Mark!

Now I have updated glibc to the latest version (2.2) and it's still the
same. I don't have the time to change to a different Linux version just to
try if that solves the problem. What else could I do?

thanks,
Alexander Jerusalem
ajeru(at)gmx(dot)net

At 15:49 21.01.01, you wrote:
>First Things First. I would not use a .0 version of Redhat for anything. The
>7.0 version is very buggy. Switch to Redhat 6.2 or another distribution like
>Slackware 7.2.
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm experiencing some strange behaviour with postgresql 7.0.3 on Red Hat
> > Linux 7. I'm sending lots of insert statements to the postgresql server
> > from another machine via JDBC. During that process postgresql continues to
> > take up more and more memory and seemingly never returns it to the system.
> > Oddly if I watch the postmaster and it's sub processes in ktop, I can't
>see
> > which process takes up this memory. ktop shows that the postgresql related
> > processes have a constant memory usage but the overall memory usage always
> > increases as long as I continue to send insert statements.
> >
> > When the database connection is closed, no memory is reclaimed, the
>overall
> > memory usage stays the same. And when I close down all postgresql
>processes
> > including postmaster, it's the same.
> > I'm rather new to Linux and postgresql so I'm not sure if I should call
> > this a memory leak :-)
> > Has anybody experienced a similar thing?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Alexander Jerusalemvknn
> >
> >