| From: | Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Carl Youngblood <carl(at)youngbloods(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Beginner optimization questions, esp. regarding Tsearch2 |
| Date: | 2006-08-10 11:07:08 |
| Message-ID: | 44DB135C.8080705@logix-tt.com |
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Hi, Richard and Carl,
Richard Huxton wrote:
> Carl Youngblood wrote:
>> - I noticed that there are six different postmaster daemons running.
>> Only one of them is taking up a lot of RAM (1076m virtual and 584m
>> resident). The second one is using 181m resident while the others are
>> less than 20m each. Is it normal to have multiple postmaster
>> processes?
>
> You should have one master backend process and one per connection. PG is
> a classic multi-process designed server.
There may be some additional background processes, such as the
background writer, stats collector or autovacuum, depending on your
version and configuration.
HTH,
Markus
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