In response to Bill Moran <wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > In response to "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx>: [snip] > I'm starting to wonder if the OS could be sending the sig 11? > > ... time warp ... > > Yup, that was it. The OS was limiting the amount of memory a single > process could use via kern.maxdsiz (FreeBSD). This was evident with > ulimit -d. > > So, the fact remains that PG 8.1 returns an out of memory error when > it hits this, and PG 8.2 coredumps. Is the 8.2 behaviour expected/ > planned? The out of memory error I would expect, the coredump I > would not. It just occurred to me that there's another wildcard in this one. The 8.1 system I tested was on FreeBSD 5.5, while both 8.2 systems were running on FreeBSD 6.2. I wonder if FreeBSD has changed which signal gets sent on memory exhaustion? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: 412-422-3463x4023
