> 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.
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