On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 07:36:59AM +0000, Albe Laurenz wrote: > What libraries are loaded in this backend (lsof)? > Maybe it's something non-PostgreSQL that's hogging the memory. I don't have this particular backend anymore, and I don't have lsof. But in smaps there are libraries listed, so: Still there is 51MB non-shared block: 2ba63c797000-2ba63fa68000 rw-p 2ba63c797000 00:00 0 Size: 52036 kB Rss: 51340 kB Shared_Clean: 0 kB Shared_Dirty: 0 kB Private_Clean: 0 kB Private_Dirty: 51340 kB Swap: 0 kB Pss: 51340 kB As for libraries: => grep / smaps | awk '{print $NF}' | sort | uniq (deleted) /lib64/ld-2.5.so /lib64/libc-2.5.so /lib64/libcom_err.so.2.1 /lib64/libcrypt-2.5.so /lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.8e /lib64/libdl-2.5.so /lib64/libkeyutils-1.2.so /lib64/libm-2.5.so /lib64/libnss_files-2.5.so /lib64/libresolv-2.5.so /lib64/libselinux.so.1 /lib64/libsepol.so.1 /lib64/libssl.so.0.9.8e /opt/pgbrew/9.1.6/bin/postgres /opt/pgbrew/9.1.6/lib/postgresql/auto_explain.so /opt/pgbrew/9.1.6/lib/postgresql/plpgsql.so /usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules.cache /usr/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2 /usr/lib64/libk5crypto.so.3.1 /usr/lib64/libkrb5.so.3.3 /usr/lib64/libkrb5support.so.0.1 /usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2.6.26 /usr/lib64/libz.so.1.2.3 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive the "(deleted)" is shared memory file. depesz -- The best thing about modern society is how easy it is to avoid contact with it. http://depesz.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general