Re: Kernel kills postgres process - help need

=?utf-8?q?Herv=C3=A9_Piedvache?=  writes:
> When I have a lot of connexions (persistante connexions from 6 web apache/php 
> serveurs using PDO, about 110 process on each web servers) on the server, or 
> long request, it's difficult for me to know when it's appening, the kernel 
> seems to kill my postgresql process then the server become completly 
> instable, and most of the time need a reboot ...

Turn off memory overcommit.

> max_connections = 2048

Have you considered using a connection pooler in front of a smaller
number of backends?

If you really need that many backends, it'd likely be a good idea to
reduce max_files_per_process to perhaps 100 or so.  If you manage
to run the kernel out of filetable slots, all sorts of userland stuff
is going to get very unhappy.

			regards, tom lane