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

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <hs@cybertec.at>
Cc: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>, Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, eg@cybertec.at
Date: 2003-09-01T12:43:35Z
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?= <hs@cybertec.at> writes:
> 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???

On some platforms, "top" seems to count the Postgres shared memory block
as part of the memory space of each backend.  If it does so in Mark's
system then that would be a pretty reasonable initial report.

			regards, tom lane