Thank you, Justin Pryzby.
I reset shared_buffer to 16GB,and the memory usage of checkpoint and
recovering just stayed at 16GB.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
192956 postgres 20 0 18.5g 16g 16g S 1.3 25.9 19:44.69 postgres:
startup process recovering 00000004000008A300000035
192960 postgres 20 0 18.5g 16g 16g S 0.7 25.8 11:13.79 postgres:
checkpointer process
192951 postgres 20 0 18.5g 1.9g 1.9g S 0.0 3.1 0:01.75
/usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/postmaster -D /data/pgdata
Thank you again for your help.
On 11/03/2017 10:21 AM, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 01:43:32AM +0000, tao tony wrote:
>> I had an asynchronous steaming replication HA cluster.Each node had 64G memory.pg is 9.6.2 and deployed on centos
6.
>>
>> Last month the database was killed by OS kernel for OOM,the checkpoint process was killed.
> If you still have logs, was it killed during a large query? Perhaps one using
> a hash aggregate?
>
>> I noticed checkpoint process occupied memory for more than 20GB，and it was growing everyday.In the hot-standby
node,therecovering process occupied memory as big as checkpoint process.
> "resident" RAM of a postgres subprocess is often just be the fraction of
> shared_buffers it's read/written. checkpointer must necessarily read all dirty
> pages from s-b and write out to disk (by way of page cache), so that's why its
> RSS is nearly 32GB. And the recovery process is continuously writing into s-b.
>
>> Now In the standby node,checkpoint and recovering process used more then 50GB memory as below,and I worried someday
thecluster would be killed by OS again.
>>
>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
>> 167158 postgres 20 0 34.9g 25g 25g S 0.0 40.4 46:36.86 postgres: startup process recovering
00000004000008550000004B
>> 167162 postgres 20 0 34.9g 25g 25g S 0.0 40.2 17:58.38 postgres: checkpointer process
>>
>> shared_buffers = 32GB
> Also, what is work_mem ?
>
> Justin
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