Re: Error message, which memory param should I increase?

It's not the server running out of memory, it's your ODBC client. You
have to change your application to use a cursor in order to deal with
huge result sets.

Jan

terry(at)ashtonwoodshomes(dot)com wrote:
> I have a very large query which needs to be very large, and it gives me this
> error sometimes:
> "Error","7175","06/23/03","23:52:52",,"ODBC Error Code = 08S01
> (Communication link failure)<P> Error while executing the query; Out of
> memory while reading tuples.
>
>
> Previously I had done:
> 1) in /etc/sysctl.conf
> kernel.shmall = 134217728
> kernel.shmmax = 134217728
>
> 2) in postgresql.conf:
> shared_buffers 10000
>
> The machine has 2 processors, and 1gb of real memory, linux kernel
> 2.2.14-5.0smp Postgres 7.2.4, many gigabytes free disk space. Can anyone
> tell me what I should do to further try to prevent this out of memory
> situation?
>
> Additional info, here is the memory segment of my postgresql.conf:
> #
> # Shared Memory Size
> #
> #shared_buffers = 64 # 2*max_connections, min 16
> shared_buffers = 10000 # 2*max_connections, min 16
> #max_fsm_relations = 100 # min 10, fsm is free space map
> #max_fsm_pages = 10000 # min 1000, fsm is free space map
> #max_locks_per_transaction = 64 # min 10
> #wal_buffers = 8 # min 4
>
> #
> # Non-shared Memory Sizes
> #
> #sort_mem = 512 # min 32
> #vacuum_mem = 8192 # min 1024
>
>
> #
> # Write-ahead log (WAL)
> #
> #wal_files = 0 # range 0-64
> #wal_sync_method = fsync # the default varies across platforms:
> # # fsync, fdatasync, open_sync, or open_datasync
> #wal_debug = 0 # range 0-16
> #commit_delay = 0 # range 0-100000
> #commit_siblings = 5 # range 1-1000
> #checkpoint_segments = 3 # in logfile segments (16MB each), min 1
> #checkpoint_timeout = 300 # in seconds, range 30-3600
> #fsync = true
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Terry Fielder
> Manager Software Development and Deployment
> Great Gulf Homes / Ashton Woods Homes
> terry(at)greatgulfhomes(dot)com
> Fax: (416) 441-9085
>
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