database died

I have a server, with Postgres, and a squid running. The squid is a real
CPU-mem eater, and in one of the inserts to the DB, I got this on the log
file and then the postmaster died.

/dbs/postgres/bin/postmaster: reaping dead processes...
/dbs/postgres/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: pid 27317 exited with status 0
2001-03-13 18:34:03 DEBUG: proc_exit(0)
2001-03-13 18:34:03 DEBUG: shmem_exit(0)
2001-03-13 18:34:03 DEBUG: exit(0)
/dbs/postgres/bin/postmaster: reaping dead processes...
/dbs/postgres/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: pid 27557 exited with status 0
CheckPoint Data Base: fork failed: Not enough space
invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=1245184)
FindExec: found "/dbs/postgres/bin/postmaster" using argv[0]

I'm on Postgresql-7.1beta5 on Solaris 7, compiled with gcc.

I think today we are going to reconfigure the squid so it doesn't eat so much
mem (other things on that server don't work good either).

Any idea on this? I think the the postmaster shouldn't die, at least it's
what I first thought.

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