"AL-Temimi, Muthana" <muthana.al-temimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > is there any problem if I use the following command: > “sync; echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches” > to release the cached memory on linux server. The only problem would be that performance would tend to be poor if you discard the OS cache. > Because I have a problem with cached memory on the linux Server > beacaue there are increasing in cached memory till swap. You probably have not configured PostgreSQL very well. Please describe your hardware and OS and show the results of running these queries: SELECT version(); SELECT name, current_setting(name), SOURCE FROM pg_settings WHERE SOURCE NOT IN ('default', 'override'); Also, if you could show about 30 seconds of output from `vmstat 1` while the swapping is happening, that would help us provide useful advice. -- Kevin Grittner EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin