Re: Out of memory with "create extension postgis" - Mailing list pgsql-general

>>>> "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel.westermann@dbi-services.com> writes:
>>>>> The process eats all the available memory and finally dies:
>>>>> # create extension postgis;
>>>>> ERROR:  out of memory
>>>>> DETAIL:  Failed on request of size 8265691 in memory context "PortalContext".
>>>>> Time: 773569.877 ms (12:53.570)

>>> There is nothing in the log file except these (not from today, but the messages are always the same):
>>> 2020-07-03 16:52:16 CEST 53617 LOG:  server process (PID 54070) was terminated by signal 9: Killed

>>A process that was killed by the OOM killer would not have managed to
>>produce an "out of memory" ERROR report, so these two are different
>>symptoms.  You need to reproduce the first case, or you won't have
>>any luck setting an error breakpoint either.

>You're right, that was before we adjusted the oom behavior. Will get back once I have more information.

So this is what we got today. In the log file there is this:

2020-07-29 16:33:23 CEST 101995 ERROR:  out of memory
2020-07-29 16:33:23 CEST 101995 DETAIL:  Failed on request of size 8265691 in memory context "PortalContext".
2020-07-29 16:33:23 CEST 101995 STATEMENT:  create extension postgis;
2020-07-29 16:35:00 CEST 106695 LOG:  disconnection: session time: 0:04:45.200 user=monitor database=pcl_l800
host=127.0.0.1port=52160 
2020-07-29 16:35:00 CEST 107063 LOG:  connection received: host=127.0.0.1 port=52212
2020-07-29 16:35:00 CEST 107063 LOG:  connection authorized: user=monitor database=pdb_l80_oiz
application_name=pg_statsinfod
2020-07-29 16:35:00 CEST 53630 ALERT:  pg_statsinfo: memory swap size exceeds threshold in snapshot '2020-07-29
16:35:00'--- 17383584 KiB (threshold = 1000000 KiB) 
2020-07-29 16:35:15 CEST 107063 LOG:  disconnection: session time: 0:00:14.770 user=monitor database=pdb_l80_oiz
host=127.0.0.1port=52212 
2020-07-29 16:35:15 CEST 107269 LOG:  connection received: host=127.0.0.1 port=52220

The GDB session shows this:
(gdb) set pagination off
(gdb) set logging file postgis.log
(gdb)
(gdb) set logging on
Copying output to postgis.log.
(gdb) b errfinish
Breakpoint 1 at 0x87e210: file elog.c, line 411.
(gdb) cont
Continuing.
Breakpoint 1, errfinish (dummy=dummy@entry=0) at elog.c:411
411     elog.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) cont
Continuing.
Breakpoint 1, errfinish (dummy=dummy@entry=0) at elog.c:411
411     in elog.c
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install CGAL-4.7-1.rhel7.1.x86_64 boost-date-time-1.53.0-27.el7.x86_64
boost-serialization-1.53.0-27.el7.x86_64boost-system-1.53.0-27.el7.x86_64 boost-thread-1.53.0-27.el7.x86_64
gmp-6.0.0-15.el7.x86_64jbigkit-libs-2.0-11.el7.x86_64 json-c-0.11-4.el7_0.x86_64 libcurl-7.29.0-54.el7_7.2.x86_64
libidn-1.28-4.el7.x86_64libjpeg-turbo-1.2.90-8.el7.x86_64 libssh2-1.8.0-3.el7.x86_64 libtiff-4.0.3-32.el7.x86_64
mpfr-3.1.1-4.el7.x86_64postgis30_12-3.0.1-5.rhel7.x86_64 protobuf-c-1.0.2-3.el7.x86_64
sqlite33-libs-3.30.1-1.rhel7.x86_64
(gdb)
Continuing.


The GDB logfile shows this:
[root@tstm49012 ~]# cat postgis.log
Breakpoint 1 at 0x87e210: file elog.c, line 411.
Continuing.
Breakpoint 1, errfinish (dummy=dummy@entry=0) at elog.c:411
411     elog.c: No such file or directory.
Continuing.
Breakpoint 1, errfinish (dummy=dummy@entry=0) at elog.c:411
411     in elog.c
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install CGAL-4.7-1.rhel7.1.x86_64 boost-date-time-1.53.0-27.el7.x86_64
boost-serialization-1.53.0-27.el7.x86_64boost-system-1.53.0-27.el7.x86_64 boost-thread-1.53.0-27.el7.x86_64
gmp-6.0.0-15.el7.x86_64jbigkit-libs-2.0-11.el7.x86_64 json-c-0.11-4.el7_0.x86_64 libcurl-7.29.0-54.el7_7.2.x86_64
libidn-1.28-4.el7.x86_64libjpeg-turbo-1.2.90-8.el7.x86_64 libssh2-1.8.0-3.el7.x86_64 libtiff-4.0.3-32.el7.x86_64
mpfr-3.1.1-4.el7.x86_64postgis30_12-3.0.1-5.rhel7.x86_64 protobuf-c-1.0.2-3.el7.x86_64
sqlite33-libs-3.30.1-1.rhel7.x86_64
Continuing.
Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
0x00007f94f4af2e93 in __epoll_wait_nocancel () from /lib64/libc.so.6
Detaching from program: /usr/pgsql-12/bin/postgres, process 101995
[root@tstm49012 ~]#

Is that of any help?

Regards
Daniel