--On Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:41 AM +1000 Philip Warner 
<pjw at rhyme.com.au> wrote:

> It's the slon worker process that dies by exhausting its memory. It
> seems to want to read the entire xid's worth of log entries into memory
> while applying them in background, and since reading is a lot faster

What happens to the data on the origin when this happens?  Is there any 
corruption?  How would we recover from this?  Do we have to rebuild the 
nodes or just restart the slon?