Re: postmaster grows

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Max Vaschenko <max@nino.ru> writes:
> > After some (2-3 weeks) time both postmaster and all (every) backends take
> > about 60mb memory.
>
> Okay, then it is a postmaster leak.  The backends are started by fork
> from the postmaster, so they'd inherit whatever data memory size the
> postmaster currently has.
>
> > May be backend that running long time, causes other postgres processes
> > to grow?
>
> Not possible for a backend to affect the postmaster like that, AFAICS.
> I think it's just a garden-variety memory leak in some postmaster
> operation.
>
> Since this isn't being reported by other folks, either there's a
> system-specific problem or you are using a postmaster feature that's not
> widely used.  RedHat 6.2 is pretty common so we can probably eliminate
> system-specific issues.  Which authentication method(s) do you use?
> (If you could send your whole pg_hba.conf file, that might be useful to
> look at.)

----- pg_hba.conf --
local all                                  password
host  all    127.0.0.1    255.255.255.255  password
host  all    xxx.xx.x.xx  255.255.255.255  password
host  all    xxx.xx.x.xx  255.255.255.255  password
host  all    xxx.xx.x.xx  255.255.255.255  password
host  all    xxx.xx.x.xx  255.255.255.255  password
--------------------

Four databases with some simple plpgsql triggers.
Access to postgres from C and PHP3.


>
>                         regards, tom lane

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