[ADMIN] Background writer memory bloat?

2006-08-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
I'm seeing a background writer process in an 8.0.8 installation that uses 1.6 GB of main memory, and ps shows that it has used an unreasonable amount of CPU time so far. It seems that the machine was under heavy load just before I got to it; maybe that is cause? Has anyone seen this sort of

Re: [ADMIN] Background writer memory bloat?

2006-08-04 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm seeing a background writer process in an 8.0.8 installation that uses 1.6 GB of main memory, and ps shows that it has used an unreasonable amount of CPU time so far. It seems that the machine was under heavy load just before I got to it; maybe

Re: [ADMIN] Background writer memory bloat?

2006-08-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Freitag, 4. August 2006 17:00 schrieb Tom Lane: Are you sure it's bloat, and not just a reflection of the fact that it's touched every page of the shared buffers over its lifespan? That seems to be the explanation. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/