Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D461337B50 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:45:39 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23969-03 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:45:32 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94E6E1337B78 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:45:31 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9KKjTT8004056; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:45:29 -0400 (EDT) To: Dimi Paun cc: Jeff Davis , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: What is postmaster doing? In-reply-to: <1287607173.18151.75.camel@dimi.lattica.com> References: <1287600255.18151.58.camel@dimi.lattica.com> <1287604781.28384.50.camel@jdavis-ux.asterdata.local> <3615.1287606374@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1287607173.18151.75.camel@dimi.lattica.com> Comments: In-reply-to Dimi Paun message dated "Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:39:33 -0400" Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:45:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4055.1287607529@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201010/324 X-Sequence-Number: 40742 Dimi Paun writes: > On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 16:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> It's probably a backend process, not the postmaster --- I suspect the >> OP is using a version of ps that only tells you the original process >> name by default. > I'm running CentOS 5.5, using procps-3.2.7-16.el5. Hm, what ps options did you use? I'm having a hard time reproducing your display format on Fedora 13 (procps-3.2.8-7.fc13.x86_64). regards, tom lane