Re: Memory Usage and OpenBSD

2010/2/10 Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>:
>> Can anybody briefly explain me how one postgres process allocate
>> memory for it needs?
>
> There's no real maximum, as it depends on the exact usage. However, in
> general postgres tries to keep below the values in work_mem and
> maintainence_workmem. Most of the allocations are quite small, but
> postgresql has an internal allocator which means that the system only
> sees relatively large allocations.

These "relatively large allocations" are exactly what I mean. What
size are they?
Is it right to say that these allocations are work_mem size, or
temp_buffers size, or maintainence_workmem size? Or something like.
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antonvm