Re: Really out of memory?

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: Ben Chobot <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Really out of memory?
Date: 2009-06-02 18:42:33
Message-ID: 4A257299.2040002@hogranch.com
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Ben Chobot wrote:
> May 31 02:59:40 sfmelwss postgres[30103]: [1-1] ERROR: out of memory
> May 31 02:59:40 sfmelwss postgres[30103]: [1-2] DETAIL: Failed on
> request of size 16777212.

Thats a 16MB request is that your work_mem size or something by any chance?

> 02:30:01 AM kbmemfree kbmemused %memused kbbuffers kbcached
> kbswpfree kbswpused %swpused kbswpcad
> 02:40:01 AM 13332 1003316 98.69 130448 198188
> 1034572 13996 1.33 32

so you only have 13MB memory free. you have -do- have free swap, however.

hey, is any ULIMIT in effect for the postgres process?

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