On 06/26/11 2:23 PM, Dave Coventry wrote:
> While the server is a little challenged in the way of RAM, it is by no
> means under any sort of load.
I didn't read the whole thread, but is this a Linux server? Linux has
a horrible feature, the "Out of Memory Killer", which kills off
processes when the system is low on memory.
the OOM-Killer usually leaves log entries in DMESG and maybe
/var/log/messages
If in fact its the OOM killer, you should probably lower your WORK_MEM
and SHARED_BUFFERS and maybe MAINTENANCE_WORK_MEM in postgresql.conf
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