Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 16:45, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>   
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>     
>>> I realize this is a very platform-specific thing, but should we
>>> consider setting the value of /proc/<pid>/oom_adj when running on
>>> linux? See:
>>>       
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20080201223336.GC24780%40alvh.no-ip.org
>>     
>
> Grr. I had zero recollectoin of that :S
>
> Can't find a useful consensus though?
>
>   

It is probably worth trying to protect the postmaster in the init 
script. Beyond that things probably start to get fairly difficult.

cheers

andrew