I'm betting it's shared_buffers that have been swapped out (2G swapped out on his machine) for kernel cache. The RES and SHR being the same says the actual processes are using hardly any ram, just hitting shared_buffers. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Jeremy Carroll<jeremy.carroll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But the kernel can take back any of the cache memory if it wants to. > Therefore it is free memory. > > This still does not explain why the top command is reporting ~9GB of > resident memory, yet the top command does not suggest that any physical > memory is being used. > > > On 8/14/09 2:43 PM, "Reid Thompson" <reid.thompson@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > you're using cached swap in your calculation ( 22825616 ) swap is not > RAM -- it's disk > -- When fascism comes to America, it will be intolerance sold as diversity. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
