FW: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-11-06 Thread Christian Paul B. Cosinas
ith vacuum. We only have a full server vacuum once a day. -Original Message- From: Mark Kirkwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 3:14 AM To: Christian Paul B. Cosinas Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory > > > I just n

Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-11-06 Thread Christian Paul B. Cosinas
PM To: Jon Brisbin Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory   [snip] to the second processor in my dual Xeon eServer) has got me to the point that the perpetually high memory usage doesn't affect my application server. I'm curious - how doe

FW: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-25 Thread Christian Paul B. Cosinas
Here are the configuration of our database server: port = 5432 max_connections = 300 superuser_reserved_connections = 10 authentication_timeout = 60 shared_buffers = 48000 sort_mem = 32168 sync = false Do you think this is enough? Or

Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Christian Paul B. Cosinas wrote: Hi mark I have so many functions, more than 100 functions in the database :) And I am dealing about 3 million of records in one database. And about 100 databases :) LOL - sorry, mis-understood your previous message to mean you had identified *one* query where

Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-24 Thread Christian Paul B. Cosinas
Paul B. Cosinas Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory Christian Paul B. Cosinas wrote: > Hi To all those who replied. Thank You. > > I monitor my database server a while ago and found out that memory is > used extensively when I am fetching records from

Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Christian Paul B. Cosinas wrote: Hi To all those who replied. Thank You. I monitor my database server a while ago and found out that memory is used extensively when I am fetching records from the database. I use the command "fetch all" in my VB Code and put it in a recordset.Also in this command

Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-24 Thread Christian Paul B. Cosinas
erformance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory Scott Marlowe wrote: >>What's needed is a way for the application developer to explicitely >>say, "This object is frequenly used, and I want it kept in memory." > > There's an interesting conversation happe

Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-24 Thread Craig A. James
Scott Marlowe wrote: What's needed is a way for the application developer to explicitely say, "This object is frequenly used, and I want it kept in memory." There's an interesting conversation happening on the linux kernel hackers mailing list right about now that applies: http://www.gossamer

Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-24 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 12:00, Craig A. James wrote: > Kevin Grittner wrote: > > In addition to what Mark pointed out, there is the possibility that a > > query > > is running which is scanning a large table or otherwise bringing in a > > large number of pages from disk. That would first use up all

Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-24 Thread Craig A. James
Kevin Grittner wrote: In addition to what Mark pointed out, there is the possibility that a query is running which is scanning a large table or otherwise bringing in a large number of pages from disk. That would first use up all available unused cache space, and then may start replacing some of

Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-24 Thread Kevin Grittner
In addition to what Mark pointed out, there is the possibility that a query is running which is scanning a large table or otherwise bringing in a large number of pages from disk. That would first use up all available unused cache space, and then may start replacing some of your frequently used dat

Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-23 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Christian Paul B. Cosinas wrote: Here is the result of “free” command” I am talking about. What does this result mean? I seem to recall the Linux man page for 'free' being most unenlightening, so have a look at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/FAQ_Linux_Memory_Management (For Gentoo, but should

Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-23 Thread Christian Paul B. Cosinas
  total      used     free       shared      buffers   cached Mem:   6192460        6137424    55036  0 85952       5828844 -/+ buffers/cache:  

Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-21 Thread Alex Turner
[snip]to the second processor in my dual Xeon eServer) has got me to thepoint that the perpetually high memory usage doesn't affect my application server. I'm curious - how does the high memory usage affect your application server? Alex

Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-21 Thread Jon Brisbin
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:40:47 - "Christian Paul B. Cosinas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But after a number of access to the tables the memory is being used > and it is not being free up. Actually after this access to the > database and the server is just idle I noticed this behavior on my S

Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-21 Thread Christian Paul B. Cosinas
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory --On Freitag, Oktober 21, 2005 03:40:47 + "Christian Paul B. Cosinas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a confusion to the memory handling of postgreSQL. > I rebooted my Server which is a PostgreSQL 8.0 Running on Redhat 9,

Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-21 Thread Christian Paul B. Cosinas
:23 AM To: Christian Paul B. Cosinas; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory --On Freitag, Oktober 21, 2005 03:40:47 + "Christian Paul B. Cosinas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a confusion to the memory handling of postgreSQL. > I re

Re: [PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-21 Thread Jens-Wolfhard Schicke
--On Freitag, Oktober 21, 2005 03:40:47 + "Christian Paul B. Cosinas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am having a confusion to the memory handling of postgreSQL. I rebooted my Server which is a PostgreSQL 8.0 Running on Redhat 9, which is a Dual Xeon Server and 6 gig of memory. Of course there

[PERFORM] Used Memory

2005-10-20 Thread Christian Paul B. Cosinas
HI!   I am having a confusion to the memory handling of postgreSQL.   Here is the Scenario. I rebooted my Server which is a PostgreSQL 8.0 Running on Redhat 9, which is a Dual Xeon Server and 6 gig of memory. Of course there is not much memory still used since it is just restarted. B