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Re: Is it a memory leak in PostgreSQL 7.4beta?

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

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From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <hs@cybertec.at>, "Mark Kirkwood" <markir@paradise.net.nz>
Cc: "Stephan Szabo" <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, <eg@cybertec.at>
Date: 2003-09-03T02:23:27Z
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> I can hardly imagine that the backend started working with 9mb of
> memory. what did you do that PostgreSQL needed so much memory from the
> beginning??? are you using the default settings? usually the postmaster
> does not need more than 3mb at startup (in this scenario).

On FreeBSD, every one of my backends appears to occupy 20MB.  That's because
the SHM is added to _each_ process.

Chris