Tom Lane wrote:
> =?iso-8859-1?q?Clodoaldo=20Pinto=20Neto?= <clodoaldo_pinto@yahoo.com.br> writes:
>
>> --- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> escreveu:
>>
>>>Look in the postmaster's log to see what happened.
>
>
>>LOG: server process (PID 9576) was terminated by signal 9
>
>
> Well, there's a smoking gun ...
>
> Assuming that you didn't deliberately kill -9 your server process,
> the only mechanism I've heard of that causes this is the Linux kernel's
> out-of-memory killer --- see
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/kernel-resources.html#AEN17068
> Googling for "OOM kill" will give you additional gory details :-(.
Is for sure his messages contain:
Aug 29 22:31:36 s1 kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 9576
(postmaster).
Regards
Gaetano Mendola