From: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Cc: Carl Youngblood <carl@youngbloods.org>
Subject: Re: Beginner optimization questions, esp. regarding Tsearch2
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:07:08 +0200
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<44DAFB2B.4070307@archonet.com>
Hi, Richard and Carl,
Richard Huxton wrote:
> Carl Youngblood wrote:
>> - I noticed that there are six different postmaster daemons running.
>> Only one of them is taking up a lot of RAM (1076m virtual and 584m
>> resident). The second one is using 181m resident while the others are
>> less than 20m each. Is it normal to have multiple postmaster
>> processes?
>
> You should have one master backend process and one per connection. PG is
> a classic multi-process designed server.
There may be some additional background processes, such as the
background writer, stats collector or autovacuum, depending on your
version and configuration.
HTH,
Markus
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