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From Ludwig Lim
Subject psql/postmaster not freeing up resources? (based on "top" command)
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Msg-id 20021018084334.47784.qmail@web80302.mail.yahoo.com
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Hi:

   I was monitoring the time to perform  a complicated
query in psql using "top" command with "s 1" switch.
So the screen is always refreshed after 1 second.

   Initially the following state of the psql/postmster
before I started the query

Size  RSS   Share  State %CPU  %Mem  time Command
3872  3872  3368     S    0    .1    0.0  postmaster

Sometime after the query has finished executing."top"
reported the following state

Size   RSS   Share  State %CPU  %Mem  time  command
11724  11M   11072   S     0    .5    4:27  postmaster

  Isn't it suppose to revert back to its orginal state
after the query? I tried to execute a query on a very
small table to see if the settings would change, yet
the settings does not change.

    Any idea on this phenomemon?

thank you in advance,
ludwig

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