[PERFORM] Heavy virtual memory usage on production system

2005-07-05 Thread Alexander Stanier
these queries at once? I also presume that if VM usage is high then we are paging a vast amount to disk. But I am not sure why. Has anyone seen this behaviour before and can anyone point me in the right direction? Regards, Alexander Stanier ---(end of broadcast

Re: [PERFORM] Heavy virtual memory usage on production system

2005-07-06 Thread Alexander Stanier
. Tom Lane wrote: Alexander Stanier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The database seems to fine to start with, but then as the load increases it seems to reach a threshold where the number of non-idle queries in pg_stat_activity grows heavily and we appear to get something similar to a motorway

Re: [PERFORM] Heavy virtual memory usage on production system

2005-07-06 Thread Alexander Stanier
| 8 3100 |13 2314 | 2 (40 rows) I guess it might be worth us getting this server up to PostgreSQL 8.0.3. At least we can then discount that as a problem. Regards, Alex Stanier. Tom Lane wrote: Alexander Stanier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem happened again this morning