Re: could not fork new process for connection: Cannot allocate memory

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: Pavel Veretennikov <vermut(at)kid(dot)lv>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: could not fork new process for connection: Cannot allocate memory
Date: 2004-07-25 23:07:31
Message-ID: 41043D33.7070806@bigfoot.com
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Pavel Veretennikov wrote:

| What could be a problem? About 3G of shared memory is allocated to PG,
| 850000 shared_buffers.

I don't know what you problem can be but are you sure you need that
*very huge* ammount of shared memory ? Let us know your tipical
usage of your system.

I seen many Postgres installation with bunch of SHM wasted !!!

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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