Tom Lane-2 wrote > greigwise < > greigwise@ > > writes: >> If I have nearly 8 GB of memory left, why am I getting out of memory >> errors? > > Probably the postmaster is running under restrictive ulimit settings. > > regards, tom lane If I login as the user which runs postmaster, I get this: -bash-4.2$ ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 59341 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 4096 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited Max memory size is unlimited as is virtual memory... is there something else there I should be concerned with in regard to out of memory? Thanks again. Greig -- Sent from: http://www.postgresql-archive.org/PostgreSQL-general-f1843780.html