On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Radcon Entec <radconentec@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> At the current moment, our customer's computer has 22 instances of
> postgres.exe running. When a colleague checked a few minutes ago, there
> were 29. Our contract specifies that we cannot consume more than 40% of
> the computer's memory, and we're over that level. When does an instance
> of postgres.exe get created, and how can we make sure we create only the
> minimum number necessary?
>
Most of the memory reported in use by PostgreSQL is shared ... the actual
per-process memory use is fairly low unless your work_mem is set high and
you have queries that use it.
