Re: Per-session memory footprint (9.0/windows)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Hannes Erven <hannes(at)erven(dot)at>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, scottm(at)openscg(dot)com
Subject: Re: Per-session memory footprint (9.0/windows)
Date: 2011-03-02 22:42:42
Message-ID: 2778.1299105762@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Hannes Erven <hannes(at)erven(dot)at> writes:
> It is still about 5 MB of private memory per "idle" backend process. Is
> there anything I can do to optimize?

That sounds about the right ballpark for a working backend process with
caches loaded up. If that's too much for you, you ought to be using
connection pooling.

regards, tom lane

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