Re: vacuumdb ERROR: out of memory

Le 09/02/2010 09:35, David Kerr a écrit :
> Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
>> Le 09/02/2010 05:49, John R Pierce a écrit :
>>> David Kerr wrote:
>>>>>> maintenance_work_mem = 1GB
>>>>> So evidently, when it tries to actually allocate 1GB, it can't do it.
>>>>> Ergo, that setting is too high for your machine.
>>>>> ...
>>>> seems like i've got 2GB free.
>>>
>>> is this a 64bit postgres build?
>>>
>>> if not, you're probably running out of virtual address space in the 32
>>> bit user space, which is limited to like 2gb.
>>>
>>
>> IIRC, the virtual address space in 32bit platforms is 4GB.
>
> it is a 32bit box.
>
>>> the other possibility, and here I'm not sure, is that
>>> maintenance_work_mem is coming out of shared memory, and if so, you've
>>> exceeeded your SHMMAX kernel limit.
>>>
>>
>> work_mem and maintenance_work_mem are not shared memory. AFAICT, David
>> need to check if the VACUUM works with a lower setting for
>> maintenance_work_mem. For example, 512MB could work.
>>
>>
>
> Yes, vacuum -z works with 512MB. so any idea what was causing it not to
> work with 1GB?
>

Tom already explained that. The process couldn't get the 1GB it was
allowed to use with this setting of maintenance_work_mem.

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