Re: vacuum killed because of out of memory

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Geoffrey <lists(at)serioustechnology(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: vacuum killed because of out of memory
Date: 2007-08-29 17:43:50
Message-ID: dcc563d10708291043o60270ca1yadff1e2dc9136f52@mail.gmail.com
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On 8/27/07, Geoffrey <lists(at)serioustechnology(dot)com> wrote:
> I've recently reviewed the various recent threads on out of memory
> problems. We just had a similar issue last night. We have 11
> postmasters running on two machines in a cluster environment. Five on
> one, six on the other. They've been running in this manner for a little
> over a year now.

> So, my question is, based on the configuration of this box and the
> configuration of postgresql, can anyone point to anything that might
> cause this to happen?

Too high a setting for maint_work_mem

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