postmaster eating up memory

Hello,

I am running AOLserver with postmaster connecting to my PostgreSQL DB
backend, and recently ran into a problem restarting my server, to which I
used a kill -9 on my AOLserver processes ($ kill -9 nsd) to release the
bound IP.

The problem now is that, when I start the server up again, it is extremely
slow - I run 'top' to see the processes using the most memory, I see a few
postmaster processes eating up around 23% of CPU time and 30% of the memory
(each).

I would imagine this would be what is slowing the server down, but I would
like to know if it is safe to kill all the postmaster processes, and
probably try to restart the AOLserver after that?

Or if a manual restart would solve this issue?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers

Jon

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