On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 09:13, Tom Lane wrote:
> John Sidney-Woollett <johnsw@wardbrook.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> *What* is consuming memory, exactly --- which processes?
>
> > Sorry but I don't know how to determine that.
>
> Try "ps auxw", or some other incantation if you prefer, so long as it
> includes some statistics about process memory use. What you showed us
> is certainly not helpful.
Or run top and hit M while it's running, and it'll sort according to
what uses the most memory.