Re: increasing of the shared memory does not solve the problem of "OUT of shared memory"

From: Adam Tauno Williams <adamtaunowilliams(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: increasing of the shared memory does not solve the problem of "OUT of shared memory"
Date: 2007-05-11 18:41:37
Message-ID: 1178908897.4331.63.camel@aleph.whitemice.org
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> I increased significantly the number of shared buffers from 3000 to
> 100 000 (80Mb)
> Also I increased the max_locks_per_transaction from 64 to 10 000.
> I still receive the same error form Postgres:
> org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: out of shared memory
> Is this message appropriate to the real cause of the problem or the
> reason of the failure is actually other than what is displayed in this
> message?
>
Maybe you've got an application that is doing a BEGIN WORK, but never
doing a rollback or commit?
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Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator
Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com
Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org

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