Figuring that, for now, this might be more an admin related question then
anything, redirected appropriately...
-hackers is not for bug reports, it is for development related issues...
On Sat, 9 May 1998, Michael Richards wrote:
> under top the backend just keeps growing.
> 492 postgres 85 0 16980K 19076K RUN 1:43 91.67% 91.48% postgres
> when it hit about 20 megs, it craps out. Swap space is 0% used, and I am
> not even convinced this is using all 128 megs of ram either. Could
> something like memory fragementation be an issue?
>
> Does anyone have any ideas other than buying a gig of ram?
Just a thought (long shot, at that)...what are your limits set at
when you start up the postmaster? Are you hitting a limit, with the
postmaster reporting it as an inability to allocate more memory?
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
