Re: Kernel kills postgres process - help need

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Hervé Piedvache <bill(dot)footcow(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Kernel kills postgres process - help need
Date: 2008-01-10 03:12:35
Message-ID: 200801092212.36232.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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On Wednesday 09 January 2008 18:21, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:17:14 -0800
>
> Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> > I posted to LKML here:
> >
> > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/2/12/54202
> >
> > because linux has a behavior -- which in my opinion is a bug -- that
> > causes the OOM killer to almost always kill PostgreSQL first,
> > regardless of whether it was truly the offending process or not.
>
> If that isn't an argument for FreeBSD I don't know what is...
>

Funny, it looked like an argument for Solaris to me. ;-)

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Robert Treat
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