> I'm gonna make a SWAG that you've got 4 to 4.5G shared buffers, and if > you subract that from DRS you'll find it's using a few hundred to > several hundred megs. still a lot, but not in the 4G range you're > expecting. What does top say about this? I've just add this in my cronjob with "top -b -n 1 -u postgres". Hopefully I won't let you know tomorrow :-) listen_addresses = '*' # what IP address(es) to listen on; port = 5432 # (change requires restart) max_connections = 350 # (change requires restart) shared_buffers = 500MB # min 128kB or max_connections*16kB work_mem = 2MB # min 64kB maintenance_work_mem = 128MB # min 1MB max_fsm_pages = 153600 # min max_fsm_relations*16, 6 bytes each fsync = on # turns forced synchronization on or off wal_sync_method = fsync # the default is the first option full_page_writes = on # recover from partial page writes wal_buffers = 1MB # min 32kB commit_delay = 0 # range 0-100000, in microseconds checkpoint_segments = 16 # in logfile segments, min 1, 16MB each archive_mode = on # allows archiving to be done archive_command = 'test ! -f /data/pgsql/backups/wal_arch/%f.gz && cp %p /var/lib/pgsql/backups/wal_arch/%f' # command to use to archive a logfile segment archive_timeout = 0 # force a logfile segment switch after this effective_cache_size = 10GB default_statistics_target = 100 # range 1-1000 logging_collector = on # Enable capturing of stderr and csvlog log_directory = 'pg_log' # directory where log files are written, log_connections = off log_disconnections = off log_hostname = off log_line_prefix = '%t:%u@%r:%p' # special values: autovacuum = off # Enable autovacuum subprocess? 'on' search_path = '"$user",public,quant001,dbprc001,price001,instrument001,client001' # schema names vacuum_freeze_min_age = 1000000000 datestyle = 'iso, mdy' lc_messages = 'en_US.utf8' # locale for system error message lc_monetary = 'en_US.utf8' # locale for monetary formatting lc_numeric = 'en_US.utf8' # locale for number formatting lc_time = 'en_US.utf8' # locale for time formatting default_text_search_config = 'pg_catalog.english' custom_variable_classes = 'olap' olap.rownum_name = 'default' -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general