Hi I have tried to answer to the best of my knowledge but its running on Soalris 10, and I am not that familiar with solaris ( Go Linux!!! :) > any more memory. Either you have a very low memory ulimit (look at ulimit > -a > in the same session as Postgres) or your machine is really low on memory. > Perhaps you have shared_buffers set very high or some other program is > using > all your available memory (and swap)? > the machine has 32GB RAM, I dont know how much swap it has, but I do know the disk system is a disk cluster with 16x450GB disks, it probably has a local disk as well but I dont know how big it is. -bash-3.00$ ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited file size (blocks, -f) unlimited open files (-n) 256 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 10 stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 16357 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited this is my config checkpoint_segments = 96 effective_cache_size = 128000 shared_buffers = 430000 max_fsm_pages = 208000 max_fsm_relations = 10000 max_connections = 1000 autovacuum = off # enable autovacuum subprocess? fsync = on # turns forced synchronization on or off #full_page_writes = on # recover from partial page writes wal_sync_method = fdatasync wal_buffers = 256 commit_delay = 5 #commit_siblings = 5 # range 1-1000 > Also, what version of Postgres is this? Apparently its 8.1.8, I thought it was 8.2 > are a dump of Postgres's current memory allocations and could be useful in > showing if there's a memory leak causing this. The file is 20M, these are the last lines: (the first line continues unttill ff_26000) idx_attributes_g1_seq_1_ff_4_value7: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used idx_attributes_g1_seq_1_ff_4_value2: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used idx_attributes_g1_seq_1_ff_4_value1: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used idx_attributes_g1_seq_1_ff_4_trace_id: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used idx_attributes_g1_seq_1_ff_3_value7: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used idx_attributes_g1_seq_1_ff_3_value2: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used idx_attributes_g1_seq_1_ff_3_value1: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used idx_attributes_g1_seq_1_ff_3_trace_id: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used idx_attributes_g1_seq_1_ff_2_value7: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used idx_attributes_g1_seq_1_ff_2_value2: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used idx_attributes_g1_seq_1_ff_2_value1: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used idx_attributes_g1_seq_1_ff_2_trace_id: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used idx_attributes_g1_seq_1_ff_1_value7: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used idx_attributes_g1_seq_1_ff_1_value2: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used idx_attributes_g1_seq_1_ff_1_value1: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used idx_attributes_g1_seq_1_ff_1_trace_id: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used pg_index_indrelid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used pg_namespace_oid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used pg_statistic_relid_att_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used pg_type_oid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used pg_aggregate_fnoid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used pg_proc_oid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used pg_type_typname_nsp_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used pg_proc_proname_args_nsp_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 256 free (0 chunks); 768 used pg_class_relname_nsp_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used pg_namespace_nspname_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used pg_authid_oid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used pg_trigger_tgrelid_tgname_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used pg_operator_oid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used pg_index_indexrelid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used pg_class_oid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used pg_attribute_relid_attnum_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used pg_amproc_opc_proc_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 256 free (0 chunks); 768 used pg_amop_opc_strat_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 256 free (0 chunks); 768 used MdSmgr: 4186112 total in 9 blocks; 911096 free (4 chunks); 3275016 used LockTable (locallock hash): 2088960 total in 8 blocks; 418784 free (25 chunks); 1670176 used Timezones: 47592 total in 2 blocks; 5968 free (0 chunks); 41624 used ErrorContext: 8192 total in 1 blocks; 8176 free (0 chunks); 16 used ERROR: out of memory DETAIL: Failed on request of size 130. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/