Jason McLaurin <ja...@jcore.io> writes: > I'm troubleshooting an issue where about once a week, a database appears to > lock up and then the PostgreSQL process crashes and recovers. When this > happens, a few queries will be logged, but there is no pattern to which > queries are executing when the crash happens, and the queries logged don't > appear to be queries that would consume a lot of resources.
Hmm, is it always the checkpointer that gets the OOM kill? That seems quite odd. What PG version is this exactly? Do you have any extensions installed? I recall having seen somebody before reporting odd slowness of trivial commands like BEGIN. I failed to find the thread(s) in the archives though, so I'm not sure if we identified the cause. regards, tom lane