Re: out of memory in backup and restore

df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5             132G   99G   34G  75% /
tmpfs                 4.0G     0  4.0G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              74M   16M   54M  23% /boot


is there another dump tool that dumps blobs (or all) as binary content
(not as insert statements, maybe directly dbblocks)?




Marcelo Costa schrieb:
> To decrease shared buffers you need restart your pgsql.
>
> If do you make on df -h command what is the result, please send.
>
> 2006/12/15, Thomas Markus < t.markus@proventis.net
> <mailto:t.markus@proventis.net>>:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     free diskspace is 34gb (underlying xfs) (complete db dump is 9gb).
>     free
>     -tm says 6gb free ram and 6gb unused swap space.
>     can i decrease shared buffers without pg restart?
>
>     thx
>     Thomas
>
>     Shoaib Mir schrieb:
>     > Looks like with 1.8 GB usage not much left for dump to get the
>     > required chunk from memory. Not sure if that will help but try
>     > increasing the swap space...
>     >
>     > -------------
>     > Shoaib Mir
>     > EnterpriseDB ( www.enterprisedb.com
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>     >
>     > On 12/15/06, *Thomas Markus* <t.markus@proventis.net
>     <mailto:t.markus@proventis.net>
>     > <mailto: t.markus@proventis.net
>     <mailto:t.markus@proventis.net>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Hi,
>     >
>     >     logfile content see
>     http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/cvD7uk33.html
>     >     - cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax is 2013265920
>     >     - ulimit is unlimited
>     >     kernel is 2.6.15-1-em64t-p4-smp, pg version is 8.1.0 32bit
>     >     postmaster process usage is 1.8gb ram atm
>     >
>     >     thx
>     >     Thomas
>     >
>     >
>     >     Shoaib Mir schrieb:
>     >     > Can you please show the dbserver logs and syslog at the same
>     >     time when
>     >     > it goes out of memory...
>     >     >
>     >     > Also how much is available RAM you have and the SHMMAX set?
>     >     >
>     >     > ------------
>     >     > Shoaib Mir
>     >     > EnterpriseDB ( www.enterprisedb.com
>     <http://www.enterprisedb.com>
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>     >     >
>     >     > On 12/15/06, *Thomas Markus* < t.markus@proventis.net
>     <mailto:t.markus@proventis.net>
>     >     <mailto:t.markus@proventis.net <mailto:t.markus@proventis.net>>
>     >     > <mailto: t.markus@proventis.net
>     <mailto:t.markus@proventis.net>
>     >     <mailto: t.markus@proventis.net
>     <mailto:t.markus@proventis.net>>>> wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     >     Hi,
>     >     >
>     >     >     i'm running pg 8.1.0 on a debian linux (64bit) box (dual
>     >     xeon 8gb ram)
>     >     >     pg_dump creates an error when exporting a large table with
>     >     blobs
>     >     >     (largest blob is 180mb)
>     >     >
>     >     >     error is:
>     >     >     pg_dump: ERROR:  out of memory
>     >     >     DETAIL:  Failed on request of size 1073741823.
>     >     >     pg_dump: SQL command to dump the contents of table
>     >     "downloads" failed:
>     >     >     PQendcopy() failed.
>     >     >     pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR:  out of memory
>     >     >     DETAIL:  Failed on request of size 1073741823.
>     >     >     pg_dump: The command was: COPY public.downloads
>     ...  TO stdout;
>     >     >
>     >     >     if i try pg_dump with -d dump runs with all types (c,t,p),
>     >     but i cant
>     >     >     restore (out of memory error or corrupt tar header at
>     ...)
>     >     >
>     >     >     how can i backup (and restore) such a db?
>     >     >
>     >     >     kr
>     >     >     Thomas
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