Re: Postgresql suddenly shutdown. Please help

Is a good idea to see if any process in the machine is increasing it's
memory, because it can have nothing to do with postgres. It happened to me. I
was running a application that was sending output to initlog, so initlog was
incresing of memory.
After a few days de machine was out of memory and some processes were killed
(the postmaster process was allways killed).

Raquel

On Thursday 15 May 2003 14:34, Juan Miguel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First about my english,
>
> I have a server (Dual Petium IV Xeon 2Ghz, 512 MB RAM, 64 GB SCSI HD) in
> Linux RH 8.0, using Postgresql 7.3, compiled from the sources.
>
> Well, I have detected two times that the sever after runing about 40 or 50
> days, the postgres database server die.
>
> The second time that the database died, when I turned on the monitor, I saw
> on the login text screen some messages like these:
>
> Out of Memory: killed process 20003 (postmaster)
> ...
> ... (idem)
> ...
> Out of Memory: killed process 1055 (http)
> ...
>
>
> I think that the system is "out of memory", and is killing processes, for
> freeing memory... Therefore postgres die. I say that this is what i
> suppose, but, why ?
>
> I think that this high memory hungry, could be relationed with postgres. In
> the 40-50 days that postgres lives, I have to say that I've never do a
> manual vacuum, because the server is so far away and I don't trust in
> automatic vacuum that could be lock until all transactions end.
>
> Here are, a bit of the "serverlog" and "postgresql.conf" files:
>
> ================================================
> tail -40 serverlog
> ================================================
> LOG: statistics collector process (pid 2672) was terminated by signal 9
> LOG: statistics collector process (pid 2674) was terminated by signal 9
> LOG: statistics collector process (pid 2677) was terminated by signal 9
> LOG: statistics collector process (pid 2680) was terminated by signal 9
> LOG: statistics collector process (pid 2682) was terminated by signal 9
> LOG: statistics collector process (pid 2685) was terminated by signal 9
> LOG: statistics collector process (pid 2687) was terminated by signal 9
> LOG: statistics collector process (pid 2690) was terminated by signal 9
> LOG: server process (pid 2676) was terminated by signal 9
> LOG: terminating any other active server processes
> WARNING: Message from PostgreSQL backend:
> The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend
> died abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
> I have rolled back the current transaction and am
> going to terminate your database system connection and exit.
> Please reconnect to the database system and repeat your query.
> LOG: statistics collector process (pid 2692) was terminated by signal 9
> LOG: statistics collector process (pid 2694) was terminated by signal 9
> FATAL: The database system is in recovery mode
> LOG: statistics collector process (pid 2697) was terminated by signal 9
> LOG: statistics collector process (pid 2700) was terminated by signal 9
> FATAL: The database system is in recovery mode
> LOG: statistics collector process (pid 2702) was terminated by signal 9
> LOG: statistics collector process (pid 2704) was terminated by signal 9
> LOG: statistics collector process (pid 2706) was terminated by signal 9
> LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing shared memory and
> semaphores
> LOG: statistics collector process (pid 2708) was terminated by signal 9
> LOG: startup process (pid 2710) was terminated by signal 9
> LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure
> LOG: database system was interrupted at 2003-05-15 09:39:04 CEST
> LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/244C2B84
> LOG: redo record is at 0/244C2B84; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE
> LOG: next transaction id: 20147; next oid: 119397
> LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in
> progress
> LOG: ReadRecord: record with zero length at 0/244C2BC4
> LOG: redo is not required
> LOG: database system is ready
> LOG: fast shutdown request
> LOG: shutting down
> LOG: database system is shut down
>
> ================================================
> postgresql.conf
> ================================================
> #
> # Connection Parameters
> #
> #tcpip_socket = false
> #ssl = false
>
> max_connections = 128
> #superuser_reserved_connections = 2
>
> #port = 5432
> #hostname_lookup = false
> #show_source_port = false
>
> #unix_socket_directory = ''
> #unix_socket_group = ''
> #unix_socket_permissions = 0777 # octal
>
> #virtual_host = ''
>
> #krb_server_keyfile = ''
>
>
> #
> # Shared Memory Size
> #
> shared_buffers = 1024 # 2*max_connections, min 16, typically 8KB
> each #max_fsm_relations = 100 # min 10, fsm is free space map, ~40 bytes
> #max_fsm_pages = 10000 # min 1000, fsm is free space map, ~6 bytes
> #max_locks_per_transaction = 64 # min 10
> wal_buffers = 8 # min 4, typically 8KB each
>
> #
> # Non-shared Memory Sizes
> #
> sort_mem = 8192 # min 64, size in KB
> #vacuum_mem = 8192 # min 1024, size in KB
>
> ==========================================================
>
>
> Please, how can I resolve this problem ? Why postgres shuts down ?
>
> Thanks very much.
>
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