>
>
> 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.
> 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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