Re: [HACKERS] I thought we had fixed this for v6.3.2 ...?

On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> >
> >
> > The machine has 128Meg of RAM, 256Meg of SWAP, and SWAP isn't even being
> > touched...
> >
> >
> > acctng=> insert into radhist select * from radhist_old;
> > FATAL 1:  palloc failure: memory exhausted
>
> Try this before starting postmaster:
>
>     :
>     ulimit -d 65536 2>/dev/null
>     ulimit -c 0 2>/dev/null
>     limit datasize 64m 2>/dev/null
>     limit cordumpsize 0 2>/dev/null
>
> Some proc limit is being exceeded.

    Just an FYI...this did fix it.  Should we update the FAQ with
this, or was it already there and I couldn't find it? :(

>
> > acctng=> \q
> > > pstat -s
> > Device      1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
> > /dev/sd0s1b    256000        0   255872     0%    Interleaved
> > > psql
> > Welcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:
> >   Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL
> >
> >    type \? for help on slash commands
> >    type \q to quit
> >    type \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
> >  You are currently connected to the database: acctng
> >
> > acctng=> select count(start_time) from radhist_old;
> >  count
> > ------
> > 295850
> > (1 row)
> >
> > acctng=>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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Marc G. Fournier
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