Re: "Out of memory" errors..

Hi,

> Now if I want a "maintenance_work_mem" of 64M for Postgresql, what
> should the "max user processes" setting be in my ulimit, or the "open
> files" setting etc? Is there a Postgresql help or doc page I can read
> to see how these values map? I'd like to be more educated in how I
> test to tweak these OS level values!

If this is only a PostgreSQL database server, don't limit the postgres user.
Don't tweak these limits unless you know exactly what you are doing.

- Sander

PS: "maintenance_work_mem" is completely unrelated to "max user processes"
or "open files", it's related to the allowed memory size.