On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 18:04, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > valentin.hocher@xxxxxxxxxx (Valentin Hocher) writes: >> [ cPanel's "Shell Fork Bomb Protection" actually does this: ] >> ulimit -n 100 -u 20 -m 200000 -d 200000 -s 8192 -c 200000 -v 200000 2>/dev/null > > Just to annotate that: some experimentation I did confirms that on > RHEL5 x86_64, PG 8.4.3 falls over with the mentioned error when run > under ulimit -v in the vicinity of 200000 (ie 200MB). > ... > I'd be interested to know if people can reproduce similar > problems on other Linux variants. FWIW on arch linux x86_64 breaks ~130000 and 32bit ~55000. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
