Re: Memory Usage and OpenBSD - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Memory Usage and OpenBSD
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Msg-id 15486.1264631748@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Memory Usage and OpenBSD  (Jeff Ross <jross@wykids.org>)
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Jeff Ross <jross@wykids.org> writes:
> Running a simple select only pgbench test against it will fail with an out of
> memory error as it tries to vacuum --analyze the newly created database with
> 7500000 tuples.

Better look at the "ulimit" values the postmaster is started with;
you shouldn't be getting that out-of-memory error AFAICS, unless
there's a very restrictive ulimit on what an individual process can
allocate.

            regards, tom lane

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