On 27-May-99 Brandon Palmer wrote:
> I am having some problems w/ LO in postgres 6.5.snapshot (date marked
> 5/27). Here is the problem:
>
> I am doing a program that will search through ~250M of text in LO
> format. The search function seems to be running out of ram as I get a
> 'NOTICE: ShmemAlloc: out of memory' error after the program runs for a
> bit. From running 'free', I can see that I am not using any memory in
> my swap space yet, so it does not really seem to be running out of
> memory. Postmaster does constantly grow even though I am not
> generating any information that should make it grow at all. When I
> have commented out the lo_open and lo_close function calls, everything
> is ok so I am guessing that there is some kind of a leak in the lo_open
> and lo_close functions if not in the back end in postmaster. Come take
> a look at the code if you please:
>
> http://x.cwru.edu/~bap/search_4.c
What are you running it on? What kind of limits do you have in your
shell (man limits in FreeBSD).
Vince.
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