On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 23:03:06 +1000, John Hansen <john@geeknet.com.au> wrote:
> Good people,
>
> Just had a thought!
>
> 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)
Wouldn't it be better to use sysctl to tell the kernel not to over commit
memory in the first place?