Re: Postgresql wont restart. Can I clear shared memmory segments without rebooting?
On 10-01-06 08:09:00, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
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> ... The big question though is why this is happening in the first
> place. Your top output showed 750MB+ in the cache on a system with
> 1GB ram. That's 3/4 of your system memory occupied by cached disk
> file pages, which is quite normal for Linux. At the time postgre
> could have had at most 250MB allocated to it.
He stated that his system is running out of shared memory. It's
probably using up all the segments. See Boyd's reply.
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> I fear something is quite wrong with your system, either with your
> kernel or with postgre.
It's probably postgresql leaking segments for some reason, either a bug
or a config / usage problem.
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