memory

From: Tom Allison <tallison(at)tacocat(dot)net>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: memory
Date: 2006-11-10 01:50:24
Message-ID: 4553DAE0.4090508@tacocat.net
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I've a relatively small machine (512MB) that I am setting up as a small area
database server. And I was trying to get the memory balanced out for this
machine. I don't plan on running anything other than postgresql and whatever
might be required to operate sanely on the network.

So I was changing my shared buffers and found I couldn't really get over 3500
before SHMMAX started complaining.

That being done, I'm running some jobs now on this server and have noticed that
postgres uses only a few percentage points of the available memory according to top.

So, I'm trying to understand why I don't have more memory being used up by these
SQL jobs. I was assuming that running 100 SQL statements/second would suck up a
lot of memory.

Right now all it seems to burn in CPU cycles more than RAM.

Maybe I don't understand much about how postgres will appear to operate...

But is the memory limited by the shared_buffers * max_connections?

Responses

  • Re: memory at 2006-11-10 01:58:59 from Tom Lane
  • Re: memory at 2006-11-10 02:18:15 from Richard Broersma Jr

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