Alex wrote: > The writer process seems to be using inordinate amounts of memory: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ > COMMAND > 11088 postgres 13 -2 3217m 2.9g 2.9g S 0 38.7 0:10.46 postgres: > writer process > 20190 postgres 13 -2 3219m 71m 68m S 0 0.9 0:52.48 postgres: > cribq cribq [local] idle > > I am writing moderately large (~3k) records to my database a few times > a second. Even when I stop doing that, the process continues to take > up all of that memory. > > Am I reading this right? Why is it using so much memory? shared_buffers? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
