Re: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc
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Msg-id 12799.1094967789@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc  ("C. Bensend" <benny@bennyvision.com>)
Responses Re: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc  ("C. Bensend" <benny@bennyvision.com>)
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"C. Bensend" <benny@bennyvision.com> writes:
>    I understand what happened, but not exactly why - this machine is
> running with over 300M of RAM unused.  Bumping this value down to 16M
> works fine.  But why does it hit a memory exhausted error at 64M?

Maybe it's exceeding a ulimit setting?

You might want to watch it with "top" and see what size the process
actually gets to before failing.  I'm not sure how accurate the
vacuum_mem throttle is ...

            regards, tom lane

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