Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0CD964FC53 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:53:17 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 35089-01-4 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:53:11 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.230]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65BC9650105 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:49:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so1454193rvf.43 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:49:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=geo1UDGjXcRcV+hSPhp3auqTsUwEdIfWBVqLHqcX3us=; b=FOM0Kilq+j0GBF0RFqeaxF3tjuUaGjgyfGcw8Cu385KzoKuU75izOF8yaz1pql1RFK iIIiPDmL4gmCG2S5fH+jcxM8rTAjeNxGQOAQ/EM+MjjLzO/UIePjakkJvMKpoHxP8IVn n5wtw0ks3mG1SCeyrM3UF7JSeT8gzqCx+gYvY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=D8x5qlt47iP864I2zrfTymXqCkFfDF1Nsjh7ESADttsKk/q6tUuW0Jmv7lr4eaRPol 3l6AylPFX9hjg/1sswGktki5iLdZrLXtqAWMCi1UqywFlFQ3w5ttcGA3iM4+O+wNWGem sAMKqrKGd805BjIyndvU42BVe8d42Zrj7lvVE= Received: by 10.141.13.13 with SMTP id q13mr2129425rvi.11.1222102165246; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:49:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.74.11 with HTTP; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:49:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:49:25 -0600 From: "Scott Marlowe" To: "Vladimir Rusinov" Subject: Re: Error while trying to back up database: out of memroy Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200809/234 X-Sequence-Number: 30327 As Tom mentioned, it sounds like you're being bitten by the oom killer. If, for some reason, you cannot run with it turned off, then add a really big swap space so it delays the onset of sudden death by oom to something really big. Is It possible your work_mem is set too high?