> Err, yea, overcommit_memory=2, a small amount of swap space, and a low > overcommit_ratio could cause this to happen... The default > ratio is 50 though, which should mean, on this system, there is about > 10G available for user processes, but his usage shows only a bit over 2G > being used outside of buffers/caches (based on free output).. > > Matt, can you provide the output from these: > cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory > > cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio > > cat /proc/meminfo Sure, here you go: [root@170226-db7 ~]# cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory 2 [root@170226-db7 ~]# cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio 50 [root@170226-db7 ~]# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 16432296 kB MemFree: 160188 kB Buffers: 164764 kB Cached: 14006456 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 6984144 kB Inactive: 8471456 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 16432296 kB LowFree: 160188 kB SwapTotal: 2096440 kB SwapFree: 2095992 kB Dirty: 540 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 1270076 kB Mapped: 4258192 kB Slab: 211448 kB PageTables: 559248 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 10312588 kB Committed_AS: 9760756 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 263556 kB VmallocChunk: 34359474475 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB Regards, Matt -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
