Re: kern/54181: postgresql/pg_dump causes memory exhaustion

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/54181; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
	netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/54181: postgresql/pg_dump causes memory exhaustion
Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 22:55:50 +0200

 On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 08:10:00AM +0000, dogan%tesmer.org.tr@localhost wrote:
 > Some of packages causes memory exhaustion and DoS. For example PostgreSQL and samba3, which I tried, uses all of available memory, swap, and causes server unusable.
 > sysctl vm.{anon,file,exec}{min,max} doesn't help.
 
 Can you try restricting your system to 64GB and see if that helps? There
 have been previous discussions about some parts of UVM not keeping up on
 systems with lots of memory, and very high "active" count would support
 that.
 
 Joerg