Hello, months ago I have a similar problem with the OOM-Killer. Have a look at http://www.credativ.co.uk/credativ-blog/2010/03/postgresql-and-linux-memory-management I hope that's helpful. Regards, basti On Sat 25.10.2014 22:55 +0200, Joe Van Dyk <joe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One of my postgres backends was killed by the oom-killer. Now, one of my > streaming replication slaves is reporting "invalid contrecord length > 2190 at A6C/331AAA90" in the logs and replication has paused. I have > other streaming replication slaves that are fine. > > Is that expected? It's happened twice in two days. > > I'm running 9.3.5 on the master. I have 9.3.4 on the slave that has the > problem, and 9.3.5 on the slave that doesn't have the problem. Is this > something that was fixed in 9.3.5? > > The slave that has the problem is also located across the country, while > the slave that works is in the same data center as the master -- not > sure if that's related at all. > > Joe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general