Re: Heavy postgres process

Run top, hit M and the attach the output to a reply here and we'll take a look.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Vivek_Sharan <Vivek_Sharan(at)infosys(dot)com> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply but how would I calculate which processes are eating up more memory, When I check process list, its only postgres and apache processes running on my system and only postgres processes are heavy. System runs out of memory quickly.
>
> Regards,
> ~Vivek
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com]
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 11:18 PM
> To: Vivek_Sharan
> Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Heavy postgres process
>
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Vivek_Sharan <Vivek_Sharan(at)infosys(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hi Admin,
>>
>> I'm new to this I have few queries as listed below
>>
>> 1) Number of connections made with a particular database.
>
> Wait, how to find out how many connections there are, or how many can
> a particular db handle.
>
> For this kind of thing, look at the admin functions in the pgsql-sql docs:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/functions-admin.html
>
> specifically you want something like:
>
> select datname from pg_stat_activity;
> select datname, count(datname) from pg_stat_activity group by datname;
>
>> 2) And how can I check which process (PID) is responsible for the
>> connection and
>
> That table up there ^^^
>
>> 3) what all can make a postgres process as heavy as 70-80 MB in size
>
> you may not be measuring properly. When you say it's using 70-80 MB
> how do you know this? The numbers you see in top aren't necessarily
> what some folks think they ar.
>
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