Re: [QUESTIONS] Maybe a Vacuum bug in 6.3.2

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Michael Richards <miker(at)scifair(dot)acadiau(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [QUESTIONS] Maybe a Vacuum bug in 6.3.2
Date: 1998-05-13 01:29:00
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.3.96.980512222706.438l-100000@thelab.hub.org
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Figuring that, for now, this might be more an admin related question then
anything, redirected appropriately...

-hackers is not for bug reports, it is for development related issues...

On Sat, 9 May 1998, Michael Richards wrote:

> under top the backend just keeps growing.
> 492 postgres 85 0 16980K 19076K RUN 1:43 91.67% 91.48% postgres
> when it hit about 20 megs, it craps out. Swap space is 0% used, and I am
> not even convinced this is using all 128 megs of ram either. Could
> something like memory fragementation be an issue?
>
> Does anyone have any ideas other than buying a gig of ram?

Just a thought (long shot, at that)...what are your limits set at
when you start up the postmaster? Are you hitting a limit, with the
postmaster reporting it as an inability to allocate more memory?

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org

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