Re: Out of memory when vacuuming

["Aaron Bono" <postgresql@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/25/06, Szabolcs BALLA <szballa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I upgraded my server from 7.4.7 to 8.1.4 and when I want to run a vacuum
analyze verbose I've got this error message:
INFO:  vacuuming "public.lgevents"
ERROR:  out of memory
DETAIL:  Failed on request of size 262143996.


My settings:
shared_buffers = 300000
temp_buffers = 256000
work_mem = 256000
maintenance_work_mem = 256000
max_fsm_pages =  250000
effective_cache_size = 614400

My server  has 16Gbyte memory, and kernel.shmmax = 4294967295
Do you have any idea why I got this error message

 
What OS are you using?

If you are using Linux, you may want to check the memory limits for the postgres user?  Try a "ulimit" on postgres.  I had similar problems on my Linux server.

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