On Sep 30, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> If the shared segment is no longer present according to ipcs,
> and there are no postgres processes still running, then it's
> simply not possible for it to be postgres' fault if memory has
> not been reclaimed. So you're looking at a kernel bug.
thats got to be it then. i've been running ipcs *hoping* to see
something, but its all 'freed'. the mem just disappears.
> As to the nature of the bug ... we saw something similar in older
> versions of OS X:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-08/msg00972.php
thanks for the link!