"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Hans-Jürgen Schönig <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.
I'm leaving for vacation so I will not have time to try mpatrol
and see what is going on.
You can find mpatrol here:
http://www.cbmamiga.demon.co.uk/mpatrol/
if some one have time may be usefull try and
see the logs.
Regards
Gaetno Mendola
