Re: out of memory error when running DB maintenance

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: Ben Deneweth <ben(dot)deneweth(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: out of memory error when running DB maintenance
Date: 2010-12-18 07:08:45
Message-ID: 4D0C5DFD.9000509@lelarge.info
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Le 18/12/2010 06:14, Ben Deneweth a écrit :
> I have a DB taking up 220gb of a 300gb drive so I purged some old data
> from it. When I try to vaccum/analyze using pgAdmin III I keep getting
> an out of memory error. I am running Windows Vista 64 bit with 8gb of
> RAM and I have change the postgresql.conf file variables to the following:
>
> #custom_variable_classes = '' # list of custom variable class names
> shared_buffers = 1024MB
> effective_cache_size = 2048MB
> work_mem = 64MB
> maintenance_work_mem = 1024MB
> commit_delay = 10000
> checkpoint_segments = 128
> checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9
> wal_buffers = 2MB
>
> Any ideas on how I can avoid running out of memory and run a successful
> vacuum/analyze?
>

Can you show us the complete error message? and tell us what PostgreSQL
release you use?

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Guillaume
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