Re: PG Killed by OOM Condition

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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