| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Medora Schauer <mschauer(at)fairfield(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: fatal error in pg.log |
| Date: | 2005-12-01 20:33:48 |
| Message-ID: | 20051201203348.GA1287@svana.org |
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:18:14AM -0600, Medora Schauer wrote:
> I found this in /var/log/messages:
>
> Dec 1 09:23:40 Qc kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> Dec 1 09:23:40 Qc kernel: VM: killing process postmaster
>
> Is this because we are running out of memory?
>
> Our file system is ext3.
Umm, yeah. Looks like you totally ran out of free memory. Do you have
sufficient swap setup?
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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