Re: Death postgres

From: Marc Millas <marc(dot)millas(at)mokadb(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Death postgres
Date: 2023-05-06 12:19:49
Message-ID: CADX_1aaS211DDt6=OA68yWnzPLatvT1wXe9kVo0j6SVgrr-61w@mail.gmail.com
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Le sam. 6 mai 2023 à 09:46, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pgsql(at)hjp(dot)at> a écrit :

> On 2023-05-06 03:14:20 +0200, Marc Millas wrote:
> > postgres 14.2 on Linux redhat
> >
> > temp_file_limit set around 210 GB.
> >
> > a select request with 2 left join have crashed the server (oom killer)
> after
> > the postgres disk occupation did grow from 15TB to 16 TB.
>
> temp_file_limit limits the space a process may use on disk while the OOM
> killer gets activated when the system runs out of RAM. So these seem to
> be unrelated.
>
> hp
>
Its clear that oom killer is triggered by RAM and temp_file is a disk
thing...
But the sudden growth of disk space usage and RAM did happen exactly at the
very same time, with only one user connected, and only one query running...

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