Re: OOM on large SELECT

Sorry for the delay of this answer but i was trying to figure out.However I saw that the memory that the postgres is using is getting larger step by step.So it doesn't free it.After the third query it is already full and one of the thread of the postgres is killed from the OOM.When the process is killed the program usually is going to call again a stored function.By the way the info that you required me are:
postgres (PostgreSQL) 8.4.0Linux kernel 2.6.18 64bits
For the memory settings I have to contact the system admin because i don't have the rights, on that machines, to read the configurations file.Thank you again to all for your help.Cheers,Angelo.
> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:30:59 -0700
> From: pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com
> To: amenuor(at)hotmail(dot)com
> CC: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [JDBC] OOM on large SELECT
>
> Angelo Nicolosi wrote:
> > It's possible that the problem is in my C code but every time that I'm
> > allocating memory, using always the palloc() function, I'm always
> > calling the pfree().
> > There is some way to analyze the code meanwhile is working inside the
> > Postgre server (something like valgrind)?
> > However the command free -m on my machine outputs:
> >
> > total used free shared buffers cached
> > Mem: 2010 664 1345 0 157 383
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 123 1886
> > Swap: 16386 41 16345
> >
> > I think that the swap is enough.
> > Could you give me some tips about how can I see where is the problem?
> > Thank you for your help!
>
> do you know what query you were making when you ran out of memory? it
> -appears- it was a postgres server process that was OOM'd.
>
> what OS and version are you on (OOM seems to imply its likely linux,
> since no other OS I'm familiar with would randomly kill processes like
> that), what version postgres, etc ?
>
> also, what are the various memory settings in your postgresql.conf
> (shared_buffers, work_mem, etc)
>
>

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