Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> > I think you'll find this overcommit issue affects many if not most Unixen.
>
> I'm unconvinced, because I've only ever heard of the problem affecting
> Postgres on Linux.
What I don't understand is why they just don't start failing on
fork/malloc rather than killing things.
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