On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Radcon Entec <radconentec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings! > > At the current moment, our customer's computer has 22 instances of > postgres.exe running. When a colleague checked a few minutes ago, there > were 29. Our contract specifies that we cannot consume more than 40% of > the computer's memory, and we're over that level. When does an instance > of postgres.exe get created, and how can we make sure we create only the > minimum number necessary? > Most of the memory reported in use by PostgreSQL is shared ... the actual per-process memory use is fairly low unless your work_mem is set high and you have queries that use it. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general