extreme mem usage under amd64 arch ?

[Robert Leftwich]

patrick wrote:
> 
> Hope someone can shine a light for me on this,

Sorry, I can't do a lot more than 'me too'

I reported similar issues on an asus a8n-sli with dual athlon's running STABLE 6 
some time back w/o anyone being able to shed light on it.

Do you have the ability to run the latest 6.1 beta? If so, and your experience 
is like mine, the problem goes away. I'm  running the exact same setup on 6.1b4 
as I was on 6 stable and I don't see anywhere near the same amount of mem usage 
as I did before - in fact I've been able to triple some of my Postgres buffer 
settings with the 4G of ram not even 1/2 fully utilised.

I saw very similar memory sizes with httpd as you reported before I switched to 
lighttpd (which interestingly did not have the same problem on STABLE 6 - always 
using around 17M) but some Python processes I was running regularly maxed out at 
over 1.4G, now it's down in the 400M range doing the same processing on 
significantly more data.

HTH

Robert