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 -- Markus Schaber | Logical Tracking&Tracing International AG Dipl. Inf. | Software Development GIS Fight against software patents in EU! www.ffii.org www.nosoftwarepatents.org
