Re: InitBufferPoolAccess crash

On Tuesday May 9 2006 3:07 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net> writes:
> >    from /opt/pgsql/installs/postgresql-7.3.4/bin/postmaster
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  0x12d288 in InitBufferPoolAccess ()
> >    from /opt/pgsql/installs/postgresql-7.3.4/bin/postmaster
> > Error accessing memory address 0x0: Invalid argument.
>
> Right offhand I'd imagine that the calloc() call failed and
> returned NULL --- leastwise it's hard to see how else that
> routine could crash. Could your machine be nearly out of
> memory?

Quite likely.  It turns out we had a rogue spike of 1400
processes at that time, so that makes perfect sense.

Thanks,
Ed