Re: out of memory woes

On 18 Dec 2006 07:16:56 -0800, Angva <angvaw(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> The funny thing is that once it does fail, it fails consistently until
> the server is bounced - I must have run the cluster script 10 times
> after the initial failure. The server's 6g of RAM is normally more than
> enough (so normally, maintenance_work_mem is not too high) until this
> strange wall is hit. Another funny thing is that according to top, no
> more than about 700k of swap is ever used - even when the problem
> occurs - and the limit is 2g.
>

could you please show the configure options (shared buffers, work mem, and
maintenance_work_mem), plus; what os you are running and on what
architecture? i.e. 32bit? 64bit? xeon?

best regards,

depesz

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