Re: Out of Memory errors while running pg_dump

From: Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Out of Memory errors while running pg_dump
Date: 2008-02-06 04:00:31
Message-ID: D5302D19-8856-439A-8BD8-C2FE17CD395E@myemma.com
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On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:28 PM, Jeff Davis wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:11 -0600, Erik Jones wrote:
>>> Are you sure the postmaster is being launched
>>> under ulimit unlimited?
>>
>> ulimit -a gives:
>>
>> core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited
>> data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
>> file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
>> open files (-n) 256
>> pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 10
>> stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240
>> cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
>> max user processes (-u) 16357
>> virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
>>
>
> If you are using FreeBSD, is it possible you ran into the kern.maxdsiz
> kernel tunable? It can only be adjusted at boot, I think.

We're on Solaris.

Erik Jones

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