Re: Memory Leakage Problem

From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: John Sidney-Woollett <johnsw(at)wardbrook(dot)com>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Memory Leakage Problem
Date: 2005-12-13 17:40:06
Message-ID: 1134495605.3587.110.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 09:13, Tom Lane wrote:
> John Sidney-Woollett <johnsw(at)wardbrook(dot)com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> *What* is consuming memory, exactly --- which processes?
>
> > Sorry but I don't know how to determine that.
>
> Try "ps auxw", or some other incantation if you prefer, so long as it
> includes some statistics about process memory use. What you showed us
> is certainly not helpful.

Or run top and hit M while it's running, and it'll sort according to
what uses the most memory.

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