Re: memory leak under heavy load?

Probably best to open up a bug...

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:38:06PM +0530, surabhi.ahuja wrote:
> even i have observed memory leaks ... is it happening in postgres side
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> i can send the valgrind logs
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> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org on behalf of hubert depesz lubaczewski
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> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] memory leak under heavy load?
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> On 11/29/05, Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com> wrote:
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>     Are you sure this isn't just PostgreSQL caching data?
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> i am not sure. but what bothers me is:
> i setup limit of shared memory to 50000 buffers - which gives estimate 400 megabytes. how come it ended up using 6GB
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> depesz
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