Re: [GENERAL] Bad planning data resulting in OOM killing of postgres

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 03:47:08PM -0600, David Hinkle wrote:


> Nope, that pops too.  The query runs for a long time at a somewhat
> normal rate of ram consumption, using ~1G of RSS then suddenly spikes
> to about 6G, at which point the OOM killer pops it.  Box has 8G of ram
> and 4G of swap.

By any chance:

- when it happens has the kernel considered using swap ?

- which kernel are you running ?

There's been (for some workloads) massive problems with RAM
exhaustion / swapping / OOM killer going wild with
4.7/4.8/some 4.9 kernels.

Just a shot in the dark,
Karsten
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