On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Greg Smith <gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Scott Marlowe wrote: > >> In this: >> >> Mem: 16432240k total, 16344596k used, 87644k free, 27548k buffers >> Swap: 10241428k total, 3680860k used, 6560568k free, 6230376k cached >> >> The 6.2G cached is considered part of the 16G used >> >> So it's not using more memory than it has. It's just the accounting >> is inobvious. > > This is a snapshot. The fact that 3.7GB of swap is used here suggests there > may have been more memory used at some point in the past then we're seeing > now; that's more what I was commenting on. A look at the si/so figures in > vmstat should nail down whether that's still going on or not now, as Tom > already suggested. Definitely. not arguing the guy doesn't have problems, just that the way top accounts for memory is rather misleading for most folks. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
