Re: What's using all my RAM?

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 12:37:47AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> adey <adey11@gmail.com> writes:
> > Please could someone tell me how to discover what is using all of my RAM?
> > I am trying to run a vacuum against Postgres, but it fails immediately
> > with:-
>
> > "ERROR:  out of memory
> > DETAIL:  Failed on request of size 1073741820."
>
> I'd bet lunch that this is a corrupt-data problem, not an out-of-memory
> problem --- specifically, a bad value in a field length word.  See the
> archives for many prior examples.

1073741820 = 3ffffffc = 00111111111111111111111111111100

That doesn't explain anything but it's an interesting-looking number.

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Michael Fuhr