Re: postgres memory management

Neil, thank you for your answer,

I thought about that possibility and it is possible since that computer has
512 MB RAM. But when I start and stop other programs like emacs the memory
is freed as soon as I stop them. As to KDE: I'm not concerned about a lack
of memory in general but I'm about to deploy an application on a server
that I hope will be running for a long time without me having to restart it
every two days because of a memory leak in some software. Anyway, I hope
you're right, I'll just try it :-)

thanks,

Alexander Jerusalem
ajeru(at)gmx(dot)net
vknn

At 18:49 21.01.01, Neil Conway wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:18:54PM +0100, Alexander Jerusalem wrote:
> > 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 :-)
>
>How much memory is being used? Do you ever go into swap? If not,
>what's probably happening is Linux is using free memory to cache data
>like I/O. Linux should automatically release this memory if it's
>needed by a process. So as long as you have some free memory, I'd
>say don't worry about it -- but if you start going into swap and
>this memory isn't released, then you might have a problem.
>
>BTW, you're using 'ktop', the KDE front end to 'top'? If you're
>concerned about memory usage, I'd definately recommend not running
>KDE, X, or any other GUI stuff.
>
>HTH,
>
>Neil
>
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