"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> writes:
> <2005-03-28 12:28:27 EST >LOG: background writer process (PID 17409) was terminated by signal 9
> Memory seems to be ok. No entries in /var/log/messages (this is a Linux
> 2.4 series kernel, gcc 3.4.1, dual 686 CPU, 1 SCSI drive system).
Signal 9 almost has to be the OOM killer. You sure there's nothing
about "Out of Memory" in /var/log/messages?
regards, tom lane