Re: Error while trying to back up database: out of memroy

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Vladimir Rusinov" <vladimir(at)greenmice(dot)info> writes:
>> But now I'm getting following error:
>> pg_dump: WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of another server
>> process
>
> As a rule of thumb, you should disable OOM kill on any server system.

This document describes a few solutions potentially better than
outright disabling:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/taroon-list/2007-August/msg00006.html .
(I don't know whether those solutions actually work or not, but may be
worth trying by the look of it.)

Peter

> However, you might want to look into why the system's aggregate memory
> requirements have now increased from what they used to be. It seems
> unlikely that this is pg_dump's fault per se, if you're running a
> reasonably recent PG release. (There were some memory leaks inside
> pg_dump, a long time ago...)
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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