Re: Out of memory on SELECT in 8.3.5

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Matt Magoffin <postgresql(dot)org(at)msqr(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Out of memory on SELECT in 8.3.5
Date: 2009-02-09 20:15:38
Message-ID: 20090209201538.GF8123@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Matt Magoffin (postgresql(dot)org(at)msqr(dot)us) wrote:
> [root(at)170226-db7 ~]# cat /proc/meminfo
> CommitLimit: 10312588 kB
> Committed_AS: 9760756 kB

I suspect this may be it... Apparently, while you're only using about
2G, you've got 10G or so of outstanding commitments, and Linux is
refusing to allocate more.

You probably want to up your overcommit_ratio, esp. in light of the fact
that you've only got 2G of swap on this box. I'd probably say up it to
80, which would give you 14.8G of commitable memory, leaving some room
in-memory (1.2G) for cache/buffers and whatnot. Alternativly, you could
go for 90, which would allow commits up to 16.4G, so if everyone used
all their memory, you'd be into swap.

Enjoy,

Stephen

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