On 3/13/23 15:18, Israel Brewster wrote:
root@novarupta:~# cat 
/sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/system-postgresql.slice/postgresql@13-main.service/memory.max
max
root@novarupta:~# cat 
/sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/system-postgresql.slice/postgresql@13-main.service/memory.high
max
root@novarupta:~#

which would presumably indicate that it’s a system level limit being
exceeded, rather than a postgresql specific one?

Yep

The syslog specifically says "Memory cgroup out of memory”, if that means
something (this is my first exposure to cgroups, if you couldn’t
tell).

I am not entirely sure, but without actually testing it I suspect that since memory.max = high (that is, the limit is whatever the host has available) the OOM kill is technically a cgroup OOM kill even though it is effectively a host level memory pressure event.

Did you try setting "vm.overcommit_memory=2"?

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Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
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