On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:55 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/30/11 12:18 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >>>> >>>> total used free shared buffers cached >>>> >> Mem: 56481 55486 995 0 15 >>>> >> 53298 >>>> >> -/+ buffers/cache: 2172 54309 >>>> >> Swap: 1099 18 1081 >>> >>> > This is totally uninteresting. >> >> Yeah. You're going to need a whole lot more than 17MB of bloat before >> it'll be possible to tell which process is at fault, given that the >> expected process sizes are up to 10GB. > > indeed, its 100% normal for the linux virtual memory manager to write > 'dirty' pages to the swapfile during idle time. Sure, but it shouldn't grow indefinitely? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
