On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:03:06PM +1000, John Hansen wrote:
> Might it be worth while protecting the postmaster from an OOM Kill on
> Linux by setting /proc/{pid}/oom_adj to -17 ?
> (Described vaguely in mm/oom_kill.c)
Has it actually happened to you? PostgreSQL is pretty good about its
memory usage. Besides, seems to me it should be an system admisitrator
descision.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.