henk de wit escribió: > > How is the memory consumed? How are you measuring it? I assume you > > mean the postgres process that is running the query uses the memory. > > If so, which tool(s) are you using and what's the output that shows it > > being used? > > It's periodically measured and recorded by a script from which the relevant parts are: > > GET_VSZ="ps aux | grep $REQ_GREP | grep -v grep | grep -v $$ | awk '{print \$5}' > | sort -n | tail -n1"; > GET_RSS="ps aux | grep $REQ_GREP | grep -v grep | grep -v $$ | awk '{print \$6}' > | sort -n | tail -n1"; Huh, this seems really ugly, have you tried something like just $ ps -o cmd:50,vsz,rss -C postmaster CMD VSZ RSS /pgsql/install/00head/bin/postmaster 51788 3992 postgres: writer process 51788 1060 postgres: wal writer process 51788 940 postgres: autovacuum launcher process 51924 1236 postgres: stats collector process 22256 896 -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly