On 12:23 pm 07/18/08 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Do you have long-running transactions? (For example transactions that > have been idle for a long time). No. The two inserts I was running were the only processes. I even did a restart to make sure there was absolutely nothing else running and to make sure all my postgresql.conf settings were in. Given that memory grows over time I am beggining to wonder if it is some type of memory leak. Just installed the postgresql debug rpm, but not sure if did anything.. strace doesn't look any different.. read(81, "2\1\0\0\260~!\16\1\0\0\0\370\1\0\2\0 \4 \0\0\0\0\300\237r\0\200\237r\0"..., 8192) = 8192 write(191, "Q=J\313\253]1\0\0\0\1\0007\33\4\0\2\0\2\t\30\0\3\302\204\0;a1OjG"..., 8192) = 8192 write(160, "XQxbqQEx+yo=H\333o\2371\0\0\0\1\0.\33C\0\2\0\2\t\30\0"..., 8192) = 8192 read(81, "2\1\0\0\320(\301\17\1\0\0\0\370\1\0\2\0 \4 \0\0\0\0\300\237r\0\200\237r\0"..., 8192) = 8192