Re: Fwd: Out of Memory on Reindex

maintenance_work_mem = 1048576 (I have 9GB ram on this server).

Chris

On 5/30/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> "Chris Hoover" <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I am getting the following error when trying to run a reindex on one of
> my
> > databases.
>
> > reindexdb: reindexing of database "xxx" failed: ERROR: out of memory
> > DETAIL: Failed on request of size 268435456.
>
> > Can someone advise on what memory parameter was violated?
>
> Kernel's process size limit (ulimit -m or something like that).
>
> What have you got maintenance_work_mem set to ... 256MB by any chance?
> If so make it less.
>
> regards, tom lane
>