Re: fatal error in pg.log - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: fatal error in pg.log
Date
Msg-id 20051201203348.GA1287@svana.org
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In response to Re: fatal error in pg.log  ("Medora Schauer" <mschauer@fairfield.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:18:14AM -0600, Medora Schauer wrote:
> I found this in /var/log/messages:
>
> Dec  1 09:23:40 Qc kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> Dec  1 09:23:40 Qc kernel: VM: killing process postmaster
>
> Is this because we are running out of memory?
>
> Our file system is ext3.

Umm, yeah. Looks like you totally ran out of free memory. Do you have
sufficient swap setup?

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.

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