On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 16:37 -0500, Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 11/11/2004 3:35 PM, Rod Taylor wrote:
> 
> >> It seems that during the transfer of data from one system to the other
> >> the slon process is slowly growing (730MB in size, 32MB resident) at
> >> this time. Since I'm down to 300MB of swap free out of 4.8GB total
> >> memory,  with PostgreSQL using around 3GB, I think I've found the source
> >> of the crash -- out of memory.
> > 
> > I should mention that the disk isn't thrashing memory in and out, so I
> > don't think that most of the memory is actively used.
> 
> ... which supports the theory of a leak ... (not that I have enough 
> information to go hunting).

I've got a backup of the master (source) from about mid-way through the
slon process, including all of the slony log data. I don't have a copy
of the slave at the same point.

If you can tell me how to use a newly restored master to go through the
process again (and how to get a profile or the information needed), I
can probably dig up the 1/2TB of diskspace required to give it a try.

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