What are the recommended ulimit settings. A single postgres connection that does an insert(with no other database activity) of say 6 million rows into a 15 column table (all integer columns) cannot complete due to an out of memory error This happens on a 4Gb Linux box with shmmax set to 1gb and about 50000 shared_buffers I would really appreciate any help ... Thanks Sriram -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 7:24 PM To: Sriram Dandapani Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Re out of memory error with large insert "Sriram Dandapani" <sdandapani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Why doesn't Postgres use swap in this situation Perhaps you need to adjust the ulimit settings that the postmaster is started under. regards, tom lane
