Re: Out of memory on vacuum analyze

From: Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: John Cole <john(dot)cole(at)uai(dot)com>, "'pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Out of memory on vacuum analyze
Date: 2007-02-21 02:51:19
Message-ID: 51C436F6-C357-4462-9BD2-BFCEF93DE18E@decibel.org
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On Feb 19, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Jeff Davis wrote:
> You told PostgreSQL that you have 900MB available for
> maintenance_work_mem, but your OS is denying the request. Try
> *lowering*
> that setting to something that your OS will allow. That seems like an
> awfully high setting to me.

900MB isn't that unreasonable if you're building indexes on a restore
or something similar. I have run into issues when trying to set it
much over 1G, though... on various OSes and platforms.
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Jim Nasby jim(at)nasby(dot)net
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)

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