On 12-06-07 10:22 AM, Zac Bentley wrote:
> 1. 2.0.7, correct.
> 2. I don't know for certain. I'm running another initial subscribe right now 
> but it will take some time before it gets to the critical point. I would 
> assume that the Slons are the ones eating memory, since I know from 
> experience that the OOM killer will kill Postgres quite readily. Something 
> that the OOM killer can't touch is leading to the system running out of 
> memory, so I'd assume the Slons.

Keep an eye on it.  I can't think of a reason why the slon memory 
footprint should grow like that.

> 3. No, it doesn't. It gets part of the way through subscription of a large 
> table and then the lots start showing watchdog-restarts, 4 or 5 times, and 
> then the system kernel panics.

What is the reason/message given for the slon workers being killed? Is 
the OOM killer, killing them?

Off the top of my head I can't think of a reason why the OOM killer 
couldn't kill a slon.  (should the OOM killer be killing slons is a 
different question).



> 4. If I restart them after the crash without touching anything, the 
> subscription process starts again from the very beginning.
>
> Zac Bentley
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