On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 17:42, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Excerpts from Dave Vitek's message of jue may 06 10:44:34 -0400 2010: >> Hi all, >> >> Yesterday I ran into two backend crashes and then an autovacuum launcher >> process crash. The autovacuum log was: >> LOG: database system is ready to accept connections >> LOG: autovacuum launcher process (PID 3788) was terminated by exception >> 0xC0000142 >> HINT: See C include file "ntstatus.h" for a description of the >> hexadecimal value. > > 0xC0000142 is STATUS_DLL_INIT_FAILED > > Apparently this can mean insufficient heap space. I'm not sure if this is a > surprising thing to get during high load. > > Not sure what can we do about it. Do you know how many processes were running at the time? (both pg backend processes and processes in general)? -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general