after no response from the folks working on postgresql, and having the same type of problem, nothing looked like it had the memory, but it wasn't available to other programs. Drastic, sure, but it was short term, low budget fix, _and it worked_.
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 09:48, Bob Crandell wrote: > They aren't running PostgreSQL. Your fix is pretty drastic. > If you ran Top with the M option, did you see a program using up the memory? > > Christopher Maujean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > > > >PostgreSQL used to have a memory leak that would take all 2gigs of ram > >from my machine. I wrote a perl script that filled an array with 'A''s > >infinitely, until it ran out of memory once it crashed, it gave all that > >memory back. Ran it as a cron job every half hour. > > > > > >On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 09:12, Bob Crandell wrote: > >> That shows how much memory each program is using but it doesn't add up to the >amount > >> of memory being used. There is over a half Gig of RAM and 96 M of swap. It all > >> gets used up just before it goes down. > >> > >> Is there another utility? > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Bob Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >> > > >> >Bob Crandell wrote: > >> > > >> >> I have a client with a Linux server running Samba. Something is > >> >> filling up memory and the swap space. This is dragging down to the > >> >> point where it's unusable. They have to reboot almost every day. > >> >> > >> >> My question is how do I find out what is taking up all that memory? > >> > > >> >Run top, then type "M" (capital M). Watch the size column. > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > >PGP: > >--------------------------------------------------------------- > >http://www.keyserver.net/ > >KeyID: EFAF4176 > >Fingerprint: 55E6 4DE1 D7D3 361E F265 C094 46F2 7B62 EFAF 4176 > >--------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- Christopher Maujean IT Director, Premierelink Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.premierelink.com/ 541-344-8575x305 PGP: --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.keyserver.net/ KeyID: EFAF4176 Fingerprint: 55E6 4DE1 D7D3 361E F265 C094 46F2 7B62 EFAF 4176 ---------------------------------------------------------------
