On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 03:47:08PM -0600, David Hinkle wrote: > Nope, that pops too. The query runs for a long time at a somewhat > normal rate of ram consumption, using ~1G of RSS then suddenly spikes > to about 6G, at which point the OOM killer pops it. Box has 8G of ram > and 4G of swap. By any chance: - when it happens has the kernel considered using swap ? - which kernel are you running ? There's been (for some workloads) massive problems with RAM exhaustion / swapping / OOM killer going wild with 4.7/4.8/some 4.9 kernels. Just a shot in the dark, Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general