Sorry for posting an obvious Linux question, but have any of you encountered this and how have you fixed it. I have 6gig Ram box. I've set my shmmax to 3072000000. The database starts up fine without any issues. As soon as a query is ran or a FTP process to the server is done, the used memory shoots up and appears to never be released. My fear is that this may cause problems for my database if this number continues to grow. Below is my TOP after running a query, and shutting down PgAdmin. While not low now, the amount of free memory has dropped to around 11mg. I'll admit I'm not that Linux savvy, but am I reading this correct?
--TOP 45 processes: 44 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle CPU1 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle CPU2 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle CPU3 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle Mem: 6711564K av, 6517776K used, 193788K free, 0K shrd, 25168K buff Swap: 2044056K av, 0K used, 2044056K free 6257620K cached Patrick Hatcher ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
