Re: Dangerous hint in the PostgreSQL manual

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Listaccount <lst_hoe01(at)kwsoft(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Dangerous hint in the PostgreSQL manual
Date: 2007-12-11 14:15:57
Message-ID: 20071211141557.GA10710@alvh.no-ip.org
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Listaccount wrote:

> I would have not been surprised if the OOM-Killer would go around in case
> of short memory but i was surprised to see fork failed with a system having
> 1GB Memory available.

We've had *a lot* of problem reports due to the OOM killer.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.PlanetPostgreSQL.org/
"Aprender sin pensar es inútil; pensar sin aprender, peligroso" (Confucio)

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