On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Francisco Reyes <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Redhat 4 > postgresql 8.3.3 > Memory: 12GB > > While doing a couple of operations of the type > insert into <table> select from <some other table> > > The OS triggered the out of memory killer (oom-killer). Is this a 32-bit installation or 64-bit? 3GB of shared_buffers is way too big for a 32-bit setup. -Doug
