2014-06-18 13:37:15 EDT FATAL: could not map anonymous shared memory: Cannot allocate memory 2014-06-18 13:37:15 EDT HINT: This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory or swap space. To reduce the request size (currently 8826445824 bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared memory usage, perhaps by reducing shared_buffers or max_connections.
ipcs -m ------ Shared Memory Segments -------- key shmid owner perms bytes nattch status Dave Cramer On 18 June 2014 15:15, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Dave Cramer <davecra...@gmail.com> writes: > > To reduce the request size [FAILently 2232950784 bytes), reduce > > PostgreSQL's shared memory usage, > > This error message is a bit garbled :-(. It would've been useful > to know the specific errno, but you've trimmed out that info. > > Perhaps it's failing because you already have ~10G in shared memory > segments? "sudo ipcs -m" might be illuminating. > > regards, tom lane >