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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Campbell, Lance <lance@illinois.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: work_mem
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 10:17:24 -0400
Message-ID: <20210331141724.GC11609@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A2AA6D08-9506-4B41-9738-4D5FF8E2E011@illinois.edu>
References: <A2AA6D08-9506-4B41-9738-4D5FF8E2E011@illinois.edu>

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 02:04:07PM +0000, Campbell, Lance wrote:
> PostgreSQL 12
> 
>  
> 
> Is there a query that will tell us at any given time what amount of PostgreSQL
> memory is being used for work_mem?  

Well, you can look at the process memory usage via 'ps', but I don't
know a way to see current work_mem allocation.  SHOW work_mem does show
the current setting, but that isn't the allocated amount.

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  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
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