Bob, > > > While looking at an error message for iexplore.exe, I noticed, on Task > Manager, that there are 5 or more instances of postgres.exe running. Each > instance is consuming between 7 to 10 megs of resources, for a total of > almost 50 megs. > > Is this normal behavour? > > 5 instances is the default when nothing has connected.
Reason: statwriter, autovacuum, ... are all separate processes. For every additional connection there is another process, also giving a postgres.exe What most likely is "wrong" are those "50 megs", as I guess you are looking at the default task manager. Within those 50MB the PostgreSQL shared memory is counted (number of processes) time. That is: If there are 8MB of shared memory configured, you will see them as 40MB with 5 running processes. Look within "View", "Select other columns" to find other memory columns. best wishes, Harald -- GHUM Harald Massa persuadere et programmare Harald Armin Massa Spielberger Straße 49 70435 Stuttgart 0173/9409607 no fx, no carrier pigeon - %s is too gigantic of an industry to bend to the whims of reality
