John R Allgood wrote: > Hey Tom > > Thanks for responding. This issue came around because of a situation > yesterday with processes being killed off by the kernel. I believe my co > worker Geof Myers sent a post yesterday and the response was to adjust the > vm.commit_memory=2. Several time throughout the day we see memory usage > peak and then it will go down. We have multiple postmasters running for > each of our division so that I we have a problem with a database it only > affects that one. It make it diffucult to tune a system with this many > postmasters running. Each database is tuned according to need. We allow > anywhere between 5-50 max connections. So what I am looking for is? Any of work_mem or maintenance_worm_mem set too high can cause excessive memory usage. What do you have these set to? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/5ZYLFMCVHXC "World domination is proceeding according to plan" (Andrew Morton) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
