Re: postmaster going down own its on

Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:

> surabhi.ahuja wrote:
>> hi, is it possible for postmaster to go doen on its own?
>> all what the logs say is FATAL: terminating connection dur to
>> administrator's command.
>
> Someone or something is issuing a kill command. It couldn't be the
> infamous Linux out-of-memory handler, could it? Check your system logs
> for details.

I'm not sure it's that--the OOM killer uses SIGKILL which would take
down the server before it could write that log entry.

-Doug