> I can hardly imagine that the backend started working with 9mb of > memory. what did you do that PostgreSQL needed so much memory from the > beginning??? are you using the default settings? usually the postmaster > does not need more than 3mb at startup (in this scenario).
On FreeBSD, every one of my backends appears to occupy 20MB. That's because the SHM is added to _each_ process. Chris ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings