Re: out of memory - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: out of memory
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Msg-id 20090319002802.GO3798@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to out of memory  (Fabricio <fabrixio1@hotmail.com>)
Responses Re: out of memory
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Fabricio wrote:
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>
> Hi
>
> I have a dedicated database server with 16 GB of RAM.
>
> and the oom-killer is killing my database

Try disabling memory overcommit; see 17.4.3 here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/kernel-resources.html

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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