Sorry for not providing that info Here are the ulimits for my postgres
account:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 1024
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 1024
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 159744
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited
This is on a 32bit dual HT Xeon system using the official rpms.
Chris
P.S.
Sorry for the direct reply, forgot to hit reply all.
On 5/31/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Chris Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> maintenance_work_mem = 1048576 (I have 9GB ram on this server).
You might have that much RAM, but I wonder how much of it the kernel
will give to any one process. Did you check the ulimit settings the
postmaster is running under? Is it possibly a 32-bit rather than
64-bit build of Postgres?
regards, tom lane
