On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 09:13, Tom Lane wrote: > John Sidney-Woollett <johnsw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> *What* is consuming memory, exactly --- which processes? > > > Sorry but I don't know how to determine that. > > Try "ps auxw", or some other incantation if you prefer, so long as it > includes some statistics about process memory use. What you showed us > is certainly not helpful. Or run top and hit M while it's running, and it'll sort according to what uses the most memory.