On Sep 30, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
If the shared segment is no longer present according to ipcs, and there are no postgres processes still running, then it's simply not possible for it to be postgres' fault if memory has not been reclaimed. So you're looking at a kernel bug.
thats got to be it then. i've been running ipcs *hoping* to see something, but its all 'freed'. the mem just disappears.
As to the nature of the bug ... we saw something similar in older versions of OS X: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-08/msg00972.php
thanks for the link!
