Re: Load problems...

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Daniel Andersen <zedar(at)free2air(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Load problems...
Date: 2001-12-19 06:02:43
Message-ID: 20011218215658.O67016-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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> sort_mem = 1024
> shared_buffers = 2048 (tried higher, but didnt' seem to improve anything)
> max_connections = 300
>
> error message just comes out of the blue, the database is chugging along
> happily and then suddenly[4059] DEBUG: connection startup failed (fork
> failure): Resource temporarily unavailable
> [4059] DEBUG: connection startup failed (fork failure): Resource
> temporarily unavailable
> [4059] DEBUG: could not launch checkpoint process (fork failure): Resource
> temporarily unavailable
> [4059] DEBUG: connection startup failed (fork failure): Resource
> temporarily unavailable
> [4059] DEBUG: connection startup failed (fork failure): Resource
> temporarily unavailable

Sounds like fork returning EAGAIN.
What does ulimit -a show for the postgres user?

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