Re: Fwd: Out of Memory on Reindex

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Chris Hoover" <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Out of Memory on Reindex
Date: 2007-05-31 14:42:55
Message-ID: 29387.1180622575@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Chris Hoover" <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> maintenance_work_mem = 1048576 (I have 9GB ram on this server).

You might have that much RAM, but I wonder how much of it the kernel
will give to any one process. Did you check the ulimit settings the
postmaster is running under? Is it possibly a 32-bit rather than
64-bit build of Postgres?

regards, tom lane

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