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From: Adarsh Sharma <adarsh.sharma@orkash.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postgres Performance Tuning
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:21:13 +0530
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Thanks Scott :

My iostat package is not installed but have a look on below output:

[root@s8-mysd-2 8.4SS]# vmstat 10
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- 
-----cpu------
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy 
id wa st
 1  0 147664  93920  72332 15580748    0    1   113   170   47   177  6  
1 92  1  0
 0  0 147664  94020  72348 15580748    0    0     0     4  993   565  0  
0 100  0  0
 0  0 147664  93896  72364 15580748    0    0     0     5  993   571  0  
0 100  0  0
 0  0 147664  93524  72416 15580860    0    0     0   160 1015   591  0  
0 100  0  0
 0  0 147664  93524  72448 15580860    0    0     0     8 1019   553  0  
0 100  0  0
 0  0 147664  93648  72448 15580860    0    0     0     0 1019   555  0  
0 100  0  0
 0  0 147664  93648  72448 15580860    0    0     0     3 1023   560  0  
0 100  0  0

[root@s8-mysd-2 8.4SS]# iostat
-bash: iostat: command not found
[root@s8-mysd-2 8.4SS]#

Best regards,
Adarsh

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Adarsh Sharma <adarsh.sharma@orkash.com> wrote:
>   
>> Mem:  16299476k total, 16198784k used,   100692k free,    73776k buffers
>> Swap: 16787884k total,   148176k used, 16639708k free, 15585396k cached
>>
>>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+
>> COMMAND
>>  3401 postgres  20   0 4288m 3.3g 3.3g S    0 21.1   0:24.73
>> postgres
>>  3397 postgres  20   0 4286m 119m 119m S    0  0.8   0:00.36
>> postgres
>> PLease help me to understand how much memory does 1 Connection Uses and how
>> to use Server parameters accordingly.
>>     
>
> OK, first, see the 15585396k cached?  That's how much memory your OS
> is using to cache file systems etc.  Basically that's memory not being
> used by anything else right now, so the OS borrows it and uses it for
> caching.
>
> Next, VIRT is how much memory your process would need to load every
> lib it might need but may not be using now, plus all the shared memory
> it might need, plus it's own space etc.  It's not memory in use, it's
> memory that might under the worst circumstances, be used by that one
> process.  RES is the amount of memory the process IS actually
> touching, including shared memory that other processes may be sharing.
>  Finally, SHR is the amount of shared memory the process is touching.
> so, taking your biggest process, it is linked to enough libraries and
> shared memory and it's own private memory to add up to 4288Meg.  It is
> currently actually touching 3.3G.  Of that 3.3G it is touching 3.3G is
> shared with other processes.  So, the difference between RES and SHR
> is 0, so the delta, or extra memory it's using besides shared memory
> is ZERO (or very close to it, probably dozens or fewer of megabytes).
>
> So, you're NOT running out of memory.  Remember when I mentioned
> iostat, vmstat, etc up above?  Have you run any of those?
>   

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