The writer process seems to be using inordinate amounts of memory: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 11088 postgres 13 -2 3217m 2.9g 2.9g S 0 38.7 0:10.46 postgres: writer process 20190 postgres 13 -2 3219m 71m 68m S 0 0.9 0:52.48 postgres: cribq cribq [local] idle I am writing moderately large (~3k) records to my database a few times a second. Even when I stop doing that, the process continues to take up all of that memory. Am I reading this right? Why is it using so much memory? -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance