Re: PostgreSQL 9.0.4 crashing

What's work_mem and maintenance_work_mem set to?

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:30 PM, R, Abhilash (HP Software)
<abhilash(dot)r(at)hp(dot)com> wrote:
> It's an 8 CPU, 16GB RAM box with swap space configured to 24 GB.
>
> I could see windows Resource-Exhaustion Detector errors in event viewer saying - " Windows successfully diagnosed a low virtual memory condition." around the time when postgreSQL crashed. Can this cause the crash?
>
> shared_buffers = 32MB
>
> It's a 64 bit box.
>
> Regards,
> Abhilash R
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com]
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 2:45 AM
> To: R, Abhilash (HP Software)
> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 9.0.4 crashing
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:57 AM, R, Abhilash (HP Software)
> <abhilash(dot)r(at)hp(dot)com> wrote:
>> PostgreSQL 9.0.4 is crashing intermittently in Windows 2008 R2 environment
>> with following error in log file.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2012-05-31 03:15:54 IST LOG:  server process (PID 49972) was terminated by
>> exception 0xC000012D
>>
>> 2012-05-31 03:15:54 IST HINT:  See C include file "ntstatus.h" for a
>> description of the hexadecimal value.
>>
>> 2012-05-31 03:15:54 IST LOG:  terminating any other active server processes
>>
>> 2012-05-31 03:15:54 IST WARNING:  terminating connection because of crash of
>> another server process
>>
>> 2012-05-31 03:15:54 IST DETAIL:  The postmaster has commanded this server
>> process to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another
>> server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
>>
>> 2012-05-31 03:15:54 IST HINT:  In a moment you should be able to reconnect
>> to the database and repeat your command.
>>
>> 2012-05-31 03:15:54 IST WARNING:  terminating connection because of crash of
>> another server process
>>
>>
>>
>> I could find a related, known issue with 8.3.9 with ref. 5965; Is  this
>> issue fixed in 9.0.4?
>
> After some googling I'm seeing some hints that you may have
> overcommitted virtual memory.  How much memory do you have and what's
> shared buffers set to?  Is this 32/64 bit?
>
> merlin
>
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