>That's kind of odd: a COPY shouldn't really consume very much working >memory. I suspect that much of the process's apparent VM consumption may >be shared buffers ... what have you got shared_buffers set to on the old >server? If it's more than half a GB or so, maybe reducing it would help.
This is not a VM, but hardware.
Adrian said:
>In addition to the other suggestions, what is the exact pg_dump command
On 11/4/18 2:55 PM, Charles Martin wrote: > Yep, you called it: > > Nov 2 20:30:45 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 30438 > (postmaster) score 709 or sacrifice child > Nov 2 20:30:45 localhost kernel: Killed process 30438, UID 26, > (postmaster) total-vm:3068900kB, anon-rss:1695392kB, file-rss:1074692kB > > So it's running out of memory when trying to dump this table. The "old" > server has 4GB of ram, the "new" server 20GB. >
In addition to the other suggestions, what is the exact pg_dump command you are using?
