Re: Postgres filling up hard drive with swap files

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:45:18AM -0500, Joe Lester wrote:

Joe,

> >Maybe you said this before, but I didn't follow the previous thread.
> >What do you mean by swap files?
>
> By swap files I mean the files that contain the memory that the OS is
> maintaining on the hard disk, after physical RAM has overflowed.

Wow, this would be the most spectacular memory leak I have ever seen.
How do you know these files are related to the Postgres processes?
Could we see a top extract, or some equivalent showing a process list
and their memory sizes?

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