| From: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | adey <adey11(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Admin <postgres(at)productivitymedia(dot)com>, postgresql-l <postgresql-l(at)Groups(dot)ittoolbox(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: What's using all my RAM? |
| Date: | 2006-08-02 04:47:55 |
| Message-ID: | 20060802044755.GA2152@winnie.fuhr.org |
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On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 12:37:47AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> adey <adey11(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Please could someone tell me how to discover what is using all of my RAM?
> > I am trying to run a vacuum against Postgres, but it fails immediately
> > with:-
>
> > "ERROR: out of memory
> > DETAIL: Failed on request of size 1073741820."
>
> I'd bet lunch that this is a corrupt-data problem, not an out-of-memory
> problem --- specifically, a bad value in a field length word. See the
> archives for many prior examples.
1073741820 = 3ffffffc = 00111111111111111111111111111100
That doesn't explain anything but it's an interesting-looking number.
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Michael Fuhr
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