Re: initdb fails on Centos 5.4 x64

From: Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Valentin Hocher <valentin(dot)hocher(at)kabelbw(dot)de>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: initdb fails on Centos 5.4 x64
Date: 2010-05-11 07:23:02
Message-ID: AANLkTinkCG1JNebe864_ziLIXx2hIfONfCuQ_iCwzQVU@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 18:04, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> valentin(dot)hocher(at)kabelbw(dot)de (Valentin Hocher) writes:
>> [ cPanel's "Shell Fork Bomb Protection" actually does this: ]
>>         ulimit -n 100 -u 20 -m 200000 -d 200000 -s 8192 -c 200000 -v 200000 2>/dev/null
>
> Just to annotate that: some experimentation I did confirms that on
> RHEL5 x86_64, PG 8.4.3 falls over with the mentioned error when run
> under ulimit -v in the vicinity of 200000 (ie 200MB).
> ...
> I'd be interested to know if people can reproduce similar
> problems on other Linux variants.

FWIW on arch linux x86_64 breaks ~130000 and 32bit ~55000.

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