Steven Mooij wrote:
> Some additional info. We repeated the test on different hardware with
> unfortunately the same result. This is the output of the postgresql
> logfile of that experiment:
[log messages about processes kill 9ed]
> This time we tested with postgresql 8.0.3 on a 2.6.12 linux kernel.
> (Previously i tested with postgresql 7.4.9 on a 2.6.15 kernel.)
Does dmesg or syslog mention the OOM killer? I tried running your test
case while watching memory usage and stopped the postmaster before it
finished as I didn't want to risk the kernel killing it (or some random
other process) the hard way.
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