Re: BUG #4575: All page cache in shared_buffers pinned (duplicated by OS, always)

"Scott Carey" <scott@richrelevance.com> writes:
> I have determined that nearly every cached page within shared_buffers is
> being pinned in memory, preventing the OS from dropping any such pages from
> its page cache.

Shouldn't you be complaining to kernel folk rather than here?
What do you think we could do about it?

(I'm not convinced that you're seeing anything except a
platform-specific vagary in how "top" counts things, anyway.)

            regards, tom lane