Re: memory leak under heavy load?

From: "surabhi(dot)ahuja" <surabhi(dot)ahuja(at)iiitb(dot)ac(dot)in>
To: "hubert depesz lubaczewski" <depesz(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
Cc: "PostgreSQL General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: memory leak under heavy load?
Date: 2005-11-30 10:08:06
Message-ID: 967CFC4343BF2A4DAFACD026D33DC85118EC96@jal.iiitb.ac.in
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even i have observed memory leaks ... is it happening in postgres side

i can send the valgrind logs

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From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org on behalf of hubert depesz lubaczewski
Sent: Wed 11/30/2005 12:59 PM
To: Jim C. Nasby
Cc: PostgreSQL General
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] memory leak under heavy load?

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On 11/29/05, Jim C. Nasby <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> wrote:

Are you sure this isn't just PostgreSQL caching data?

i am not sure. but what bothers me is:
i setup limit of shared memory to 50000 buffers - which gives estimate 400 megabytes. how come it ended up using 6GB ?

depesz

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