Re: [ADMIN] how do you manage postgres 9's postgres process's memory

2011-02-18 Thread Kevin Grittner
Keith Gabryelski wrote: > any pointers for me to educate myself on these things is greatly > appreciated (a book?, google fu, web links?) http://www.postgresql.org/docs/books/ http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql

Re: [ADMIN] how do you manage postgres 9's postgres process's memory

2011-02-13 Thread Greg Smith
Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: I ordered some massive servers, and in the course of benchmarking them following their instructions it exposed apparent hardware issues -- so the 2 massive servers as well as one of the smaller ones got shipped back to the supplier for them to check it out. Had I a

Re: [ADMIN] how do you manage postgres 9's postgres process's memory

2011-02-13 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
manage postgres 9's postgres process's memory On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote: Keith Gabryelski wrote: > here is an example of one process's growth over time -- > > USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS > postgres 20533 0.0 0.3 647388 52216

Re: [ADMIN] how do you manage postgres 9's postgres process's memory

2011-02-13 Thread Keith Gabryelski
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Keith Gabryelski wrote: > > > here is an example of one process's growth over time -- > > > > USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS > > postgres 20533 0.0 0.3 647388 52216 > > [...] > > postgres 20533 0.0 0.9 663532 144328 > > Let's ge

Re: [ADMIN] how do you manage postgres 9's postgres process's memory

2011-02-13 Thread Kevin Grittner
Keith Gabryelski wrote: > here is an example of one process's growth over time -- > > USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS > postgres 20533 0.0 0.3 647388 52216 > [...] > postgres 20533 0.0 0.9 663532 144328 Let's get the non-problem out of the way first. RSS includes shared memory. Ea

[ADMIN] how do you manage postgres 9's postgres process's memory

2011-02-12 Thread Keith Gabryelski
I've noticed my postgres processes have been increasing their memory usage. this seems to happen because my clients applications are using connection pooling and until one of the clients forces a connection reset the postgres process does not release its memory. I'd love to understand how to manag