On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Tom Lane wrote:
MemoryContextStats() might help. It just dumps the info to stderr though.
Which means it ends up in the database log files in the common configuration where where the database's stderr is redirected to there. I even script running this regularly against stuff I'm suspicious of, using something like this passed the PID of the process I want to watch:
#!/bin/bash gdb -p $1 <<EOF p MemoryContextStats(TopMemoryContext) detach quit EOF -- * Greg Smith gsm...@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers