> Sorry, I know this is probably more a linux question, but I'm guessing > that others have run into this... > I'm finding this rather interesting report from top on a Debian box... > Mem: 32945280k total, 32871832k used, 73448k free, 247432k buffers > Swap: 1951888k total, 42308k used, 1909580k free, 30294300k cached > This is a machine that's been up some time and the database is 400G, so > I'm pretty confident that shared_buffers (set to 8G) should be > completely full, and that's what that top process is indicating. Nope, use "ipcs" to show allocated shared memory segments. One of the better articles on LINUX & memory management - http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/understanding-memory-usage-on-linux.html -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
