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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Jason Lustig <lustig@brandeis.edu>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Autovacuum running out of memory
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:22:35 +0100
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Jason Lustig wrote:
> I ran "ulimit -a" for the postgres user, and here's what I got:

> max memory size         (kbytes, -m) 200000
> virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) 200000

There you go - you probably are exceeding these.

Add some lines to /etc/security/limits.conf to increase them.

-- 
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd

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