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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Fabricio <fabrixio1@hotmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: out of memory
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:28:02 -0400
Message-ID: <20090319002802.GO3798@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
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Fabricio wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have a dedicated database server with 16 GB of RAM.
> 
> and the oom-killer is killing my database

Try disabling memory overcommit; see 17.4.3 here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/kernel-resources.html

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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