Hello,
We are facing very HIGH memory utilization on postgreSQL server and need help.
Below are details of PostgreSQL server,
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MemTotal: 8165696 kB
CpuTotal: 8
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/etc/sysctl.conf
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# Controls the maximum shared segment size, in bytes
kernel.shmmax = 68719476736
# Controls the maximum number of shared memory segments, in pages
kernel.shmall = 4294967296
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top - 21:43:35 up 55 days, 8:07, 4 users, load average: 0.05, 0.25, 0.17
Tasks: 257 total, 1 running, 256 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 8165696k total, 7943160k used, 222536k free, 282044k buffers
Swap: 8385920k total, 112828k used, 8273092k free, 4793732k cached
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-bash-3.2$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7974 7756 217 0 275 4681
-/+ buffers/cache: 2799 5174
Swap: 8189 110 8079
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-bash-3.2$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 8165696 kB
MemFree: 222576 kB
Buffers: 282136 kB
Cached: 4793748 kB
SwapCached: 21144 kB
Active: 3508524 kB
Inactive: 4004532 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 8165696 kB
LowFree: 222576 kB
SwapTotal: 8385920 kB
SwapFree: 8273092 kB
Dirty: 548 kB
Writeback: 368 kB
AnonPages: 2415992 kB
Mapped: 730104 kB
Slab: 332440 kB
PageTables: 58632 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 12468768 kB
Committed_AS: 4774104 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 267392 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359470967 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
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processor : Total 8
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 26
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5504 @ 2.00GHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 2000.118
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 4
core id : 3
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 22
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 11
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips : 4000.10
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]
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-bash-3.2$ ipcs
------ Shared Memory Segments --------
key shmid owner perms bytes nattch status
0x0052e2c1 35454978 postgres 600 1142923264 28
------ Semaphore Arrays --------
key semid owner perms nsems
0x0052e2c1 37650432 postgres 600 17
0x0052e2c2 37683201 postgres 600 17
0x0052e2c3 37715970 postgres 600 17
0x0052e2c4 37748739 postgres 600 17
0x0052e2c5 37781508 postgres 600 17
0x0052e2c6 37814277 postgres 600 17
0x0052e2c7 37847046 postgres 600 17
------ Message Queues --------
key msqid owner perms used-bytes messages
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-bash-3.2$ ipcs -l
------ Shared Memory Limits --------
max number of segments = 4096
max seg size (kbytes) = 67108864
max total shared memory (kbytes) = 17179869184
min seg size (bytes) = 1
------ Semaphore Limits --------
max number of arrays = 128
max semaphores per array = 250
max semaphores system wide = 32000
max ops per semop call = 32
semaphore max value = 32767
------ Messages: Limits --------
max queues system wide = 16
max size of message (bytes) = 65536
default max size of queue (bytes) = 65536
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/var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf
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(Non-default values are as follows)
maintenance_work_mem = 480MB
checkpoint_completion_target = 0.7
work_mem = 36MB
wal_buffers = 4MB
checkpoint_segments = 8
shared_buffers = 1024MB
log_duration = on
log_min_duration_statement = 10000
effective_cache_size=2048MB
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Any idea where is the issue and what needs to be changed ?
Thanks,
Savio
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