On Tue, 2018-01-23 at 19:29 +0530, Rambabu V wrote: > Any Update, this is continuously hitting our production database. > > > OOM error not recording in server level, it is only recording in our database logs. > > > > below is the error message: > > > > cat PostgreSQL-2018-01-23_060000.csv|grep FATAL > > 2018-01-23 06:08:01.684 UTC,"postgres","rpx",68034,"[local]",5a66d141.109c2,2,"authentication",2018-01-23 06:08:01 UTC,174/89066,0,FATAL,28000,"Peer authentication failed for user ""postgres""","Connection matched pg_hba.conf line 5: ""local all all peer map=supers""",,,,,,,,"" > > 2018-01-23 06:25:52.286 UTC,"postgres","rpx",22342,"[local]",5a66d570.5746,2,"authentication",2018-01-23 06:25:52 UTC,173/107122,0,FATAL,28000,"Peer authentication failed for user ""postgres""","Connection matched pg_hba.conf line 5: ""local all all peer map=supers""",,,,,,,,"" > > 2018-01-23 06:37:10.916 UTC,"portal_etl_app","rpx",31226,"10.50.13.151:41052",5a66d816.79fa,1,"authentication",2018-01-23 06:37:10 UTC,,0,FATAL,53200,"out of memory","Failed on request of size 78336.",,,,,,,,"" > > > > $ free -mh > > total used free shared buffers cached > > Mem: 58G 58G 358M 16G 3.6M 41G > > -/+ buffers/cache: 16G 42G > > Swap: 9.5G 687M 8.9G > > > > postgresql.conf parametes: > > ===================== > > work_mem = 256MB # min 64kB > > maintenance_work_mem = 256MB # min 1MB > > shared_buffers = 16GB # min 128kB > > temp_buffers = 16MB # min 800kB > > wal_buffers = 64MB > > effective_cache_size = 64GB > > max_connections = 600 It would be interesting to know the output from sysctl vm.overcommit_memory sysctl vm.overcommit_ratio Also interesting: sar -r 1 1 I think that max_connections = 600 is way to high. Are you running large, complicated queries on that machine? That could be a problem with such a high connection limit. Is the machine dedicated to PostgreSQL? Yours, Laurenz Albe