Re: Out of memory on SELECT in 8.3.5

> * Matt Magoffin (postgresql.org@msqr.us) wrote:
>> [root@170226-db7 ~]# cat /proc/meminfo
>> CommitLimit:  10312588 kB
>> Committed_AS:  9760756 kB
>
> I suspect this may be it...  Apparently, while you're only using about
> 2G, you've got 10G or so of outstanding commitments, and Linux is
> refusing to allocate more.
>
> You probably want to up your overcommit_ratio, esp. in light of the fact
> that you've only got 2G of swap on this box.  I'd probably say up it to
> 80, which would give you 14.8G of commitable memory, leaving some room
> in-memory (1.2G) for cache/buffers and whatnot.  Alternativly, you could
> go for 90, which would allow commits up to 16.4G, so if everyone used
> all their memory, you'd be into swap.

Thanks for the advice. Should we have more than 2GB of swap available? I
thought the goal for a Postgres system was to avoid swap use at all cost?
Would it be better for us to add more swap, or adjust this
overcommit_ratio as you discuss?

Regards,
Matt