Re: out of memory in backup and restore

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Looks like with 1.8 GB usage not much left for dump to get the required chunk from memory. Not sure if that will help but try increasing the swap space...

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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB ( www.enterprisedb.com)

On 12/15/06, Thomas Markus <t.markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

logfile content see http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/cvD7uk33.html
- cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax is 2013265920
- ulimit is unlimited
kernel is 2.6.15-1-em64t-p4-smp, pg version is 8.1.0 32bit
postmaster process usage is 1.8gb ram atm

thx
Thomas


Shoaib Mir schrieb:
> Can you please show the dbserver logs and syslog at the same time when
> it goes out of memory...
>
> Also how much is available RAM you have and the SHMMAX set?
>
> ------------
> Shoaib Mir
> EnterpriseDB ( www.enterprisedb.com <http://www.enterprisedb.com>)
>
> On 12/15/06, *Thomas Markus* <t.markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: t.markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     i'm running pg 8.1.0 on a debian linux (64bit) box (dual xeon 8gb ram)
>     pg_dump creates an error when exporting a large table with blobs
>     (largest blob is 180mb)
>
>     error is:
>     pg_dump: ERROR:  out of memory
>     DETAIL:  Failed on request of size 1073741823.
>     pg_dump: SQL command to dump the contents of table "downloads" failed:
>     PQendcopy() failed.
>     pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR:  out of memory
>     DETAIL:  Failed on request of size 1073741823.
>     pg_dump: The command was: COPY public.downloads ...  TO stdout;
>
>     if i try pg_dump with -d dump runs with all types (c,t,p), but i cant
>     restore (out of memory error or corrupt tar header at ...)
>
>     how can i backup (and restore) such a db?
>
>     kr
>     Thomas
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