adey <adey11@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Please could someone tell me how to discover what is using all of my RAM? > I am trying to run a vacuum against Postgres, but it fails immediately > with:- > "ERROR: out of memory > DETAIL: Failed on request of size 1073741820." I'd bet lunch that this is a corrupt-data problem, not an out-of-memory problem --- specifically, a bad value in a field length word. See the archives for many prior examples. > Postgres v7.4.2 (upgrade underway) Yipes :-( regards, tom lane
