Hi,

> Am 29.03.2018 um 10:30 schrieb Gunnar Nick Bluth <gunnar.bl...@pro-open.de>:
> 
> Thus, buffer_alloc is the global count of buffers allocated in the
> cluster. That it appears in the bgwriter statistics is more or less
> coincidental.

But it seems not to be the total shared_buffers used, but the total number of 
allocated and re-allocated buffers. So it increments every time a buffer is 
allocated. Maybe I’m the only one who misunderstands it – or someone with 
better english then me should update the docs. ;-)


postgres=# SELECT 
buffers_alloc*current_setting('block_size')::numeric/1024/1024/1024, 
current_setting('shared_buffers') FROM pg_stat_bgwriter;
     ?column?        | current_setting
-----------------------+-----------------
1219.7707748413085938 | 64450MB
(1 row)


Or other machine:

     ?column?       | current_setting
----------------------+-----------------
126.4642944335937500 | 64450MB
(1 row)


Small one:

     ?column?      | current_setting
--------------------+-----------------
3.3014221191406250 | 6GB
(1 Zeile)


Ciao
 Alvar

--
Alvar C.H. Freude | http://alvar.a-blast.org
https://blog.alvar-freude.de/
https://www.wen-waehlen.de/

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Message signed with OpenPGP

Reply via email to