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Subject: Re: checkpoint process use too much memory
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> On Apr 20, 2020, at 1:13 PM, jian xu <jamesxu@outlook.com> wrote:
>=20
> Do you mean the file cache will be counted in postgres checkpointer =
memory usage?

No, it won't be counted as PG memory. I just mean that free memory low =
is not a sign of a problem, when it's file cache.