From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: ALVARO ARCILA <arcila_alvaro@hotmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Inactive memory Grows unlimited
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:38:29 -0400
Message-ID: <20060421163829.GD7303@surnet.cl> (raw)
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ALVARO ARCILA wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope you can help me...there's something wrong going on my db server (OS.
> GNU/linux White box)... here's the problem...
>
> The amount of Inactive memory Grows unlimited .... this happens only when
> Postgresql (8.1.1) is running... after a few days it "eats" all the RAM
> memory ... so I've have to restart the server to free RAM....
This is normal Unix behavior. Leave it running for a few more days and
you'll that nothing wrong happens. Why do you think you need "free"
memory?
Only if the swap memory start getting used a lot you need to worry about
memory consumption.
You should upgrade to 8.1.3 BTW.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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