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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ERROR: out of memory | with 23GB cached 7GB reserved on 30GB machine
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Msg-id 15197.1413930910@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to ERROR: out of memory | with 23GB cached 7GB reserved on 30GB machine  (Montana Low <montanalow@gmail.com>)
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Montana Low <montanalow@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm running postgres-9.3 on a 30GB ec2 xen instance w/ linux kernel 3.16.3.
> I receive numerous Error: out of memory messages in the log, which are
> aborting client requests, even though there appears to be 23GB available in
> the OS cache.

Perhaps the postmaster is being started with a ulimit setting that
restricts process size?

            regards, tom lane

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