On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Bob Lunney <bob_lunney@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Run ulimit -a and verify the max memory size allowed for the postgres account.(I assume you are running postmaster under the postgres account, right?) The allowed size should be large enough for the postmaster plus shared buffers and several other GUCs that require memory. Hello, =============================== $ whoami postgres $ ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 20 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 16382 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) unlimited virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited =============================== attentive. -- -- Victor Hugo dos Santos Linux Counter #224399 -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin