Re: [ADMIN] Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc

2004-09-12 Thread C. Bensend
> Maybe it's exceeding a ulimit setting? Bingo. > You might want to watch it with "top" and see what size the process > actually gets to before failing. I'm not sure how accurate the > vacuum_mem throttle is ... It failed immediately upon invocation of vacuumdb. I did find the problem and I f

Re: [ADMIN] Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc

2004-09-11 Thread Tom Lane
"C. Bensend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I understand what happened, but not exactly why - this machine is > running with over 300M of RAM unused. Bumping this value down to 16M > works fine. But why does it hit a memory exhausted error at 64M? Maybe it's exceeding a ulimit setting? You mi

[ADMIN] Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc

2004-09-11 Thread C. Bensend
Hey folks, I'm running 7.3.5 on an OpenBSD 3.5-STABLE machine, with 512M of RAM. I'm running VACUUM ANALYZE every hour, with a VACUUM FULL once per night before backups. I'm trying to speed up the VACCUMs, so I tried bumping up vacuum_mem in postgresql.conf from the default to 64M. This r

[ADMIN] Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc()

1999-06-30 Thread Brian Baquiran
We had problems with postgres when using ODBC (in Acess97), this message comes out on the console: FATAL 1: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc() pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection Is there a tweak we can do? This is the 6.4 release. Thanks, Brian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.baq