Re: bgwriter, checkpoints, curious (seeing delays)

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tory M Blue <tmblue(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jorge Montero <jorge_montero(at)homedecorators(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: bgwriter, checkpoints, curious (seeing delays)
Date: 2010-03-03 19:33:59
Message-ID: 603c8f071003031133i7c9f08dbgaaac65f45f0ddf50@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Tory M Blue <tmblue(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Ya my boxes are pretty well stacked, but a question. How does one get
> the memory usage of a query. You state to look at explain analyze but
> this gives timing and costs, but is one of the numbers memory or do I
> have to take values and do some math?

There's really not good instrumentation on memory usage, except for
sorts. 9.0 will add a bit of instrumentation for hashes.

I might try 'top'.

...Robert

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