Re: "out of memory" error

From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com>
To: Christian Schröder <cs(at)deriva(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: "out of memory" error
Date: 2007-08-22 17:22:12
Message-ID: 20070822172212.GA9218@depesz.com
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 07:07:20PM +0200, Christian Schröder wrote:
> These are the current settings from the server configuration:
> shared_buffers = 3GB

this is *way* to much. i would suggest lowering it to 1gig *at most*.

> max memory size (kbytes, -m) 3441565

this looks like too close to shared_buffers. again - lower it.

> The machine is a linux box with 4 GB memory running PostgreSQL 8.2.4.

is it by any chance i386 architecture?

depesz

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