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How to debug when OS kills postgres for high memory usage
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Problem
I am running Postgres 9.4 server in a VPS running Ubuntu. It gets killed often (multiple times in a day).
This is the message from
Out of memory: Kill process 1020 (postgres) score 64 or sacrifice child
Killed process 1020 (postgres) total-vm:445764kB, anon-rss:140640kB, file-rss:136092kB
How to debug what is causing this crash? Is it long running queries or some misconfiguration of the server or lots of idle connections open?
This is the message from
dmesgOut of memory: Kill process 1020 (postgres) score 64 or sacrifice child
Killed process 1020 (postgres) total-vm:445764kB, anon-rss:140640kB, file-rss:136092kB
How to debug what is causing this crash? Is it long running queries or some misconfiguration of the server or lots of idle connections open?
Solution
It's the OOM killer in the Linux kernel. Disable VM overcommit, per the advice in the PostgreSQL manual.
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StackExchange Database Administrators Q#131349, answer score: 5
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