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2013 Feb 06
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I/O hanging while hosting Postgres database
...up. Everything seemed normal until this morning, where the database had become unresponsive again. Fortunately, I was able to grab some system statistics before the shell and console went AWOL. The only finding that I thought was suspicious were the kmem_map numbers: vm.kmem_map_free: 655360 vm.kmem_map_size: 17141383168 It's something like 0.004% free. I haven't been able to find much documentation on what to expect here, but I don't see anything like that for other databases that I've monitored. It is possible that kmem_map can become exhausted without generating a kernel panic? Coul...