"Thomas F. O'Connell" <tf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 1. What aspect of postgres' memory usage would create an "out of > memory" condition? I'm guessing you ran the box out of swap space --- look into what other processes got started as a result of adding the NFS mount, and how much memory they wanted to eat. > 3. What would cause postgres to die from a signal 11? > I've also got a core file if that's necessary for further forensics. Send gdb backtrace, please. regards, tom lane