On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:39 AM, savio rodriges <sj_savio@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello Support,
>
> We are facing very HIGH memory utilization on postgreSQL server and need help.
>
> Below are details of PostgreSQL server,
>
> ===========================================================================
> MemTotal: 8165696 kB
> CpuTotal: 8
> ===========================================================================
> /etc/sysctl.conf
> ----------------
> # Controls the maximum shared segment size, in bytes
> kernel.shmmax = 68719476736
>
> # Controls the maximum number of shared memory segments, in pages
> kernel.shmall = 4294967296
> ===========================================================================
> top - 21:43:35 up 55 days, 8:07, 4 users, load average: 0.05, 0.25, 0.17
> Tasks: 257 total, 1 running, 256 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
> Mem: 8165696k total, 7943160k used, 222536k free, 282044k buffers
> Swap: 8385920k total, 112828k used, 8273092k free, 4793732k cached
This looks completely normal to me. You're using about 4.7G for
kernel cache, and 282M for buffers.