Re: [HACKERS] Parallel tuplesort (for parallel B-Tree index creation)

Prabhat Sahu <prabhat.sahu@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 7:51 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> That looks like the background worker got killed by the OOM killer.  How
>> much memory do you have in the machine where this occurred?

> I have ran the testcase in my local machine with below configurations:
> Environment: CentOS 7(64bit)
> HD : 100GB
> RAM: 4GB
> Processor: 4

If you only have 4GB of physical RAM, it hardly seems surprising that
trying to use 8GB of maintenance_work_mem would draw the wrath of the
OOM killer.

            regards, tom lane