On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:39 AM, savio rodriges <sj_savio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Support, > > We are facing very HIGH memory utilization on postgreSQL server and need help. > > Below are details of PostgreSQL server, > > =========================================================================== > MemTotal: 8165696 kB > CpuTotal: 8 > =========================================================================== > /etc/sysctl.conf > ---------------- > # Controls the maximum shared segment size, in bytes > kernel.shmmax = 68719476736 > > # Controls the maximum number of shared memory segments, in pages > kernel.shmall = 4294967296 > =========================================================================== > top - 21:43:35 up 55 days, 8:07, 4 users, load average: 0.05, 0.25, 0.17 > Tasks: 257 total, 1 running, 256 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > Mem: 8165696k total, 7943160k used, 222536k free, 282044k buffers > Swap: 8385920k total, 112828k used, 8273092k free, 4793732k cached This looks completely normal to me. You're using about 4.7G for kernel cache, and 282M for buffers. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin