From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Jason Lustig <lustig@brandeis.edu>
Cc: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Autovacuum running out of memory
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:22:54 -0500
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On 10/16/07, Jason Lustig <lustig@brandeis.edu> wrote:
> I ran "ulimit -a" for the postgres user, and here's what I got:
>
> core file size (blocks, -c) 200000
> data seg size (kbytes, -d) 200000
> max nice (-e) 0
> file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
> pending signals (-i) 32635
> max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32
> max memory size (kbytes, -m) 200000
> open files (-n) 100
> pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
> POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
> max rt priority (-r) 0
> stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
> cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
> max user processes (-u) 100
> virtual memory (kbytes, -v) 200000
> file locks (-x) unlimited
There ya go. it's limited to 200M memory.
Generally speaking, limiting postgresql to something that small is not
a good idea. Set it to ~ 1 Gig or so and see how it works.
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