Sorry my bad again :(
As Fabian pointed out
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20120705085653.GQ24104%40cwi.nl&forum_name=monetdb-users
its unfair to say server crashed. It got killed by the OS.

Regards,
Tapomay.

From: Tapomay Dey <tapomay@yahoo.com>
To: "monetdb-users@lists.sourceforge.net" <monetdb-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2012 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: mserver crash under load -16G data, 10 queries each from 2 remote clients

Sorry my bad observation.
The server does crash at points where the clients dumped empty results.

Regards,
Tapomay.

From: Tapomay Dey <tapomay@yahoo.com>
To: "monetdb-users@lists.sourceforge.net" <monetdb-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2012 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: mserver crash under load -16G data, 10 queries each from 2 remote clients

An update:
Tested firing 50 of the same failing query from a single machine.
mserver didn't crash. However some of the clients ended without dumping the results.
Rest of the clients completed successfully taking time from 8 to 200 seconds.
Why does it crash with 2 machines for just 20 queries?

Regards,
Tapomay.


From: Tapomay Dey <tapomay@yahoo.com>
To: "monetdb-users@lists.sourceforge.net" <monetdb-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2012 12:58 PM
Subject: mserver crash under load -16G data, 10 queries each from 2 remote clients

I have a database with Single table. 15 million rows. 16G of data. 58 columns. 
MonetDB stores it consuming 32G of data.

mserver Machine specs:
Main memory: 4G
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5645  @ 2.40GHz. Single core.

I am performing a test to see how much time it takes if I fire this query multiple times from different machines.

Case 1: I fire an aggregation query 10 times from a remote machine with 5sec interval between each firing. 
The result hs 17000 rows with around 4 MB of data.
Memory usage of mserver process reahes a peak of 73%
mclients finish within 43 to 48 seconds.

Case 2: I do the same as above but now from 2 remote machines simultaneously.
Memory usage of mserver process reahes a peak of 73% again. It keeps fluctuating between 70 and 73%.
But after some time mserver restarts and the clients terminate with all the 10 clients on each of both machines saying:
ERROR = !Connection terminated
MAPI  = tapomay@54.251.11.181:3306
ACTION= read_line
QUERY = select id1, id2, id3, id4, id5, count(*), sum(metric1),
        avg(metric2), sum(metric3), sum(metric4), sum(metric5), sum(metric6),
        sum(metric7), sum(metric8), sum(metric9), sum(metric9),
        sum(metric10), sum(metric11), sum(metric12), sum(metric13)
        from tablename group by id1, id2, id3, id4, id5;
Each query terminates within 5 to 50 seconds with the above error.

In both cases intial state of mserver consumes around 0.5% memory.

Also tested the same under other competing columnar DBs.
They complete the case 2 in around 350 or more seconds average.
They complete case 1 in 200 seconds average.

Following is a last few lines of tail of merovingian.log
2012-07-05 06:30:42 MSG merovingian[31153]: proxying client 1.compute.amazonaws.com:45476 for database 'tablename' to mapi:monetdb:/$
2012-07-05 06:30:42 MSG merovingian[31153]: target connection is on local UNIX domain socket, passing on filedescriptor instead of proxying
2012-07-05 06:30:45 MSG merovingian[31153]: proxying client 2.amazonaws.com:46225 for database 'tablename' to mapi:monetdb:///mnt/tapomay$
2012-07-05 06:30:45 MSG merovingian[31153]: target connection is on local UNIX domain socket, passing on filedescriptor instead of proxying
2012-07-05 06:30:47 MSG merovingian[31153]: proxying client 1.compute.amazonaws.com:45477 for database 'tablename' to mapi:monetdb:/$
2012-07-05 06:30:47 MSG merovingian[31153]: target connection is on local UNIX domain socket, passing on filedescriptor instead of proxying
2012-07-05 06:30:50 MSG merovingian[31153]: proxying client 2.amazonaws.com:46226 for database 'tablename' to mapi:monetdb:///mnt/tapomay$
2012-07-05 06:30:50 MSG merovingian[31153]: target connection is on local UNIX domain socket, passing on filedescriptor instead of proxying
2012-07-05 06:30:52 MSG merovingian[31153]: proxying client 1.compute.amazonaws.com:45478 for database 'tablename' to mapi:monetdb:/$
2012-07-05 06:30:52 MSG merovingian[31153]: target connection is on local UNIX domain socket, passing on filedescriptor instead of proxying
2012-07-05 06:30:55 MSG merovingian[31153]: proxying client 2.amazonaws.com:46241 for database 'tablename' to mapi:monetdb:///mnt/tapomay$
2012-07-05 06:30:55 MSG merovingian[31153]: target connection is on local UNIX domain socket, passing on filedescriptor instead of proxying
2012-07-05 06:30:59 MSG merovingian[31153]: database 'tablename' (1048) was killed by signal SIGKILL


Is there a config that would ask mserver to not kill itself and keep processing at the cost of query execution time.
A few more tens of seconds won't harm much.

Thanks and Regards,
Tapomay.