Re: memory leak under heavy load?

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:15:44PM +0800, Kathy Lo wrote:
> > See the shmctl() manpage:
> >
> >        int shmctl(int shmid, int cmd, struct shmid_ds *buf);
> >
> > One of the command ids is IPC_RMID
> >
> Do I need to change the source code of postgresql if I want to set
> IPC_RMID flag to solve this problem?

No because it's completely unrelated. The amount of shared memory
doesn't vary while the system is running and it gets removed once you
restart postgres. So it can't cause you to run out of memory (unless
you allocated a truly huge amount of memory that way, but that's bad
for other reasons). At worst it's gets stuffed into swap until you next
start postgres.

Have a nice day,
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