Thanks to you guys for your help... I appreciate it a lot. Now, I still have my SHR and RES growing up. How can I know the number at which those values should stop?
On Dec 14, 2007 5:12 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Heiner Vega wrote: > >> I've been monitoring my postgres processes and I noticed that the > resident > >> memory > >> size of the writer process is growing up too much. > > > Notice the "SHR"=shared value. That's 155MB virtual memory, 140MB of it > > resident of which 139MB is shared with other processes. So - nothing to > > worry about. > > The reason the SHR number grows over time is that the system only counts > a page of shared memory against the process after the process has first > touched it. Once the bgwriter has touched every page of shared buffers, > the number will stop changing. > > If there were actually a memory leak, the VIRT number would be growing > ... but it's not. > > >> My postgres version is 8.1.3 > > If I were you, I'd be considerably more worried about the fact that > you are running an old release with a pile of known bugs. > > regards, tom lane > -- Heiner Vega Thames
