Can any one give more input, you can see my top out put, in %MEM its taking 24.1.
Regards, Itishree On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:15 PM, itishree sukla <itishree.su...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. Below is the out put of Top Commnd. > > 3971 postgres 20 0 8048m 303m 301m S 0 0.9 0:04.34 > /usr/lib/postgresql/9.2/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main -c > config_file=/etc/postgre > 3972 postgres 20 0 66828 1820 708 S 0 0.0 1:36.37 postgres: > logger > process > > 3974 postgres 20 0 8054m 7.6g 7.6g S 0 24.1 0:56.59 postgres: > checkpointer > process > 3975 postgres 20 0 8051m 895m 891m S 0 2.8 0:04.98 postgres: > writer > process > > 3976 postgres 20 0 8051m 9m 9072 S 0 0.0 0:35.17 postgres: wal > writer > process > 3977 postgres 20 0 70932 3352 716 S 0 0.0 0:05.19 postgres: > stats collector > process > 1 > > Postgresql =9.2.3 > > > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Heikki Linnakangas < > hlinnakan...@vmware.com> wrote: > >> On 30.05.2013 15:09, itishree sukla wrote: >> >>> In our server Check pointer process is consuming 8 GB of memory, what >>> could >>> be the possible reason? Can any one please help. >>> >> >> Are you sure you're measuring the memory correctly? The RES field in top >> output, for example, includes shared memory, ie. the whole buffer cache. >> Shared memory isn't really "consumed" by the checkpointer process, but >> shared by all postgres processes. >> >> - Heikki >> > >
